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
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.”
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.
1984
Timothy Martins, PhD ’84 (Pharmacology), writes: “Yep, I’m still here… After graduating from the Pharmacology program and finishing my post-doc at Harvard, I returned to Seattle as the third scientist hired at ICOS Corporation. After 17 years and many findings and breakthroughs, all of us were laid off after purchase by Lilly for the sole rights to our jointly developed drug…Cialis! Retirement for a couple of years led to coming back to the UW to direct the High Throughput Screening Core Facility within the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine.
With all of my previous experiences being fantastic, nothing compares to developing the “CDST”, a cancer drug sensitivity test diagnostic that I’m performing within the HTS Core Facility within the Institute… I’m so proud of those I’ve worked with to bring this to the surface and taking part of saving and extending lives of those afflicted with this disease(s). Being a melanoma cancer survivor myself make me so very grateful!!! Bless UW Medicine and everyone associated with the UW.” submitted 1.12.26
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.