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Two ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2023: Philip Greenberg, professor of medicine and of immunology at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, as well as the Rona Jaffe Foundation Endowed Chair at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and head of the Program in Immunology in its Clinical Research Division; and Gunther Uhlmann, the Robert R. and Elaine F. Phelps Endowed Professor in Mathematics at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.

Four faculty members at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2022: Elizabeth Buffalo, professor and chair of physiology and biophysics; Joseph Mougous, professor of microbiology; Dr. Jay Shendure, professor of genome sciences; and James Truman, professor emeritus of biology.

Five faculty members and one affiliate professor at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø are among 120 new members and 30 international members elected to the National Academy of Sciences: Anna Karlin, professor of computer science and engineering; Rachel Klevit, professor of biochemistry; Randall LeVeque, professor emeritus of applied mathematics; Julie Theriot, professor of biology; Rachel Wong, professor of biological structure; and Julie Overbaugh, professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø affiliate professor of microbiology.

The first scheduled to receive vaccinations were frontline personnel working with COVID-19 patients. In addition to patient-care staff in intensive care units, COVID acute care floors and emergency departments, the immediate list also included environmental services staff, as well as emergency medical responders in the community. Next in line are nursing home residents and their caregivers.

The latest news from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Health Sciences and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medicine:   What price for a cure? The economics of drug pricing The uproar against the $1,000-a-pill hepatitis C drug Sovaldi, generic name sofosbuvir, may signal a turning point in drug pricing in the United States.  Purchasers appear to be pushing back and saying, “No.† In a Q & A in HSNewsbeat, Sean Sullivan, professor of pharmacy and health services, explains how drug prices are set and changing attitudes on…

Eleven regions of the human genome have been newly discovered to influence the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø was one of 145 academic centers worldwide participating in this research, which involved analyzing genes from more than 74,000 people.