PhD Class Notes
Catch up with your classmates! Class Notes are a great place to see what your fellow alumni have been up to, whether it’s professional news like new positions or award and publication announcements, or personal updates about marriages, kids (and grandkids) or retirement. Whatever you want to know about your fellow UW School of Medicine alumni, Class Notes are the place to start.
PhD
1974
Howard Young, Ph.D. ’74 (microbiology) received the inaugural Mentoring Award from the International Cytokine and Interferon Society for his many years in promoting and supporting research in cytokines and interferons throughout the biomedical research community.
1996
Edward Kelly, Ph.D. ’96 (biochemistry), writes, “Since graduating from biochemistry, I completed a post-doc in molecular toxicology in the lab of our graduate-school dean (David Eaton). I then had a brief foray into the Seattle biotech scene (Targeted Genetics) before returning to the UW, where I am now an associate professor of pharmaceutics in the School of Pharmacy. My research is focused on preclinical biology and drug safety testing, developing ex vivo models as alternatives to animal testing. This includes a project jointly funded by NIH and NASA to send our kidney ‘chip’ to the International Space Station, highlighted at the Northwest Kidney Centers’ annual gala.” See the accompanying video featuring Dr. Kelly.
2017
Lianna F. Wood, MD ’17, PhD ’15 (pathobiology), writes, “I am finishing up my first year in Boston as a pediatric GI fellow at Boston Children’s after completing pediatric residency at Montefiore in the Bronx. Very excited to be returning to the lab this summer to continue my work on immunological implications of pediatric malnutrition.”
