Research programs at HRT/3NJB
Lab-based research includes cell biology, neurosciences, vascular biology, inflammation, infectious diseases, lung biology and microbial pathogenesis. Research laboratories are located in the Harborview Research & Training (HRT) Building and the Ninth & Jefferson Building, floor 3 (3NJB). These buildings, operated through the joint efforts of the University of Washington School of Medicine and Harborview Medical Center, provide laboratory facilities and research offices for HMC-based faculty. The following research centers are housed within these two buildings:
Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions
The mission of the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions (GIBHS) at UW Medicine is to improve the health for the millions of people at risk for and affected by mental health, substance use and other brain health disorders.
Relevant Researcher:
Pravetoni, Marco
Center for AIDS and STD (CFAS)
The University of Washington Center for AIDS and STD, established in July, 1989, provides patient care, research, training and education, and international technical assistance for HIV/AIDS and STD.
Relevant Researchers:
Soge, Olusegun O.
Wood, Gwen
The Kidney Research Institute
The Kidney Research Institute is a collaboration between Northwest Kidney Centers and UW Medicine focused on developing early detection, prevention and treatment of kidney disease and its complications.
Relevant Researchers:
Bansal, Nisha
De Boer, Ian H. (Director)
Kelly, Edward J
Kestenbaum, Bryan
Mehrotra, Rajnish
Rivara, Matthew B
Wong, Susan Pamela Yi
Zelnick, Leila
The mission of the UW Medicine Memory and Brain Wellness Center is to promote the well-being of persons living with memory loss and their families, by providing exceptional care, advancing scientific understanding in the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, and building dementia-friendly communities.
Relevant Researchers:
Darvas, Martin
Gonzalez-Cuyar, Luis
Hanson, Angela
Levitt, Michael
Poolos, Nicholas
Reed, May J (Gerontology)
Shi, Min
Stewart, Tessandra
Walker, Melanie
Kim, Louis
Fillingham, Patrick
Carroll, Jeff
The UW Medicine Biorepository and Integrated Research (BRaIN) laboratory, led by C. Dirk Keene, MD, PhD, is working to perform and support research to understand normal brain anatomy and function and how this changes in injury and disease, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and others.
Relevant Researchers:
Keene, C. Dirk
Latimer, Caitlin
Nolan, Amber
The goal of the Retrovirology Lab is to understand viruses – how they are transmitted, how they evolve, and how they affect their hosts, using a wide range of techniques including next-generation sequencing, culture models and screens, and biochemical/biophysical characterization of viral gene products. The lab’s research is tightly integrated with the clinical laboratories of the University of Washington Medical Center.
Relevant Researchers:
Baird, Geoffrey
Greninger, Alex
The Sepsis Center of Research Excellence (SCORE) is a collaborative medical research center focused on sepsis translational science. The mission of SCORE-UW is to improve clinical outcomes globally in critically ill sepsis patients by discovering and advancing sepsis-related science, therapeutics, and medical technologies through shared bioinformatics-based translational science.
Relevant Researchers:
Arbabi, Saman
Batraju, Pavan
Brakenridge, Scott C.
Morrell, Eric D.
O’Keefe, Grant E.
Robinson, Bryce
Phan, Tam N.
Skerrett, Shawn J.
Stewart, Barclay T.
West, T. Eoin
Wurfel, Mark M.
Del Zoppo, Gregory J. (Hematology)
Khokhlova, Tatiana D. (Gastroenterology)
Polyak, Stephen J. (Laboratory Medicine & Pathology)
Sabath, Daniel E. (Laboratory Medicine & Pathology)
Giacani, Lorenzo (Allergy & Infectious Diseases)