Graduate Program - Molecular Basis of Disease
Research Programs
 | Our mission as a PhD Training Program and Department is to provide you with exemplary research training in experimental biology and medicine. The UW Department of Pathology is the top NIH-funded Pathology Department in the US, and has a distinguished faculty of over 80 members that provide training in both clinical and experimental pathology. A few examples follow of the types of training resources in the form of Centers, programs, training Grants and seminar series follow. Please see each of the research area links for more information on each of these areas and affiliated faculty: |
Biology of Aging/Neurodegenerative Disease Centers, Programs and Training Grants
- NIA Nathan Shock Center of Excellence (Rabinovitch)
- Alzheimer Disease Research Center (Raskind/Montine)
- Gene Action in the Pathobiology of Aging Program (Rabinovitch)
- Werner Syndrome Program Project (Monnat)
- Seattle Cancer & Aging Program (Rabinovitch/Radich)
- Genetic Approaches to Aging Training Grant (Rabinovitch)
- Biology of Aging Graduate Seminar program (PATH 450)
Cardiovascular Biology/Regenerative Medicine Centers, Programs and Training Grants
- Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (Moon, Blau, Murry)
- Biology of the Artery Wall Program (Raines/Harlan)
- Reaction to Injury Program Project (Murry)
- Cardiovascular Pathology and Cardiovascular Disease Training Grants (Schwartz,Dichek)
- Cardiovascular Biology & Genomics Program (Schwartz)
- ‘The Breakfast Club’ – weekly CV seminar series
Individual Faculty Members' Laboratory Websites
- Charles E. Alpers, MD - Laboratory of Renal Research
- Karin E. Bornfeldt, PhD - Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Diabetes-Accelerated Atherosclerosis
- Robert Hevner, MD PhD - Cerebral Cortex Development and Adult Neurogenesis
- Nancy B. Kiviat, MD - HPV Research Group
- Lawrence A.Loeb, MD PhD - Joseph Gottstein Memorial Cancer Research Laboratory
- George M. Martin, MD - Laboratory of Molecular Genetics - Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
- Raymond Monnat, MD PhD - Werner Syndrome - Homing Endonuclease - Human Cell Mutagenesis
- Thomas Montine, MD PhD - Biochemical Mechanisms of Degenerative Diseases of Brain
- Charles Murry, MD PhD - Biology of Myocardial Infarction
- Junko Oshima, MD PhD - Aging Laboratory
- Bradley Preston, MD PhD - Causes and consquences of mutation in human disease
- Peter S. Rabinovitch, MD PhD - studies of DNA Damage and Genetic Instability in Aging and During Neoplastic Progression
- Michael A. Reidy, PhD - Mechanisms that Regulate the Proliferation and Migration of Smooth Muscle Cells
- Stephen M.Schwartz, MD PhD - CVP Training Grant - Vasculata
- Karen R. Swanson, PhD - Mathematical Modeling of Pathological Biosystems
- Jing Zhang, MD PhD - Research Laboratory for Parkinson's Disease