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Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers are leading and collaborating on four research projects as part of Phase 1 in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Genesis Mission, a national initiative to build an AI-for-science ecosystem which accelerates breakthroughs in energy, discovery science and national security. 

Housed in the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ School of Pharmacy, the Institute for Innovations in Drug Delivery and Disposition (I2D3) brings together experts in artificial intelligence, drug discovery, pharmacology, data science and biotechnology to ease the bottleneck between promising molecules and successful drugs. 

New research led by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ demonstrates a new class of hydrogels that can form not just outside cells, but also inside of them. These hydrogels exhibited similar mechanical properties both inside and outside of cells, providing researchers with a new tool to group proteins together inside of cells.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Board of Regents last week approved the development plan for the first major project in the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s newly named Portage Bay Crossing area on the west side of the Seattle campus. The Regents approved a ground lease of the property at Site W27 to Wexford Science + Technology and a lease of building space by the University.

Four Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ professors were among the winners of the 2021 Breakthrough Prize, which recognizes groundbreaking achievements in the life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics.

David Baker, a professor in the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ School of Medicine’s department of biochemistry, won the prize for life sciences, while a team of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ physics professors, including Eric Adelberger, Jens Gundlach and Blayne Heckel, earned the prize for fundamental physics.

With $4 million in matching funds from the National Institutes of Health, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ has created a new integrated center to match biomedical discoveries with the resources needed to bring innovative products to the public and improve health. “The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and regional partner institutions produce some of the most exciting biomedical discoveries and technologies in the world, but we always find it challenging to support their product development as they move into the early commercialization phases,â€�…

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded an expected $10.75 million, four-year grant to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and other partner institutions for a new interdisciplinary research center to define the enigmatic rules that govern how molecular-scale building blocks assemble into ordered structures and give rise to complex hierarchical materials.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is receiving a $31.2 million gift from Washington Research Foundation to boost entrepreneurship and support research that tackles some of society’s most crucial challenges. The award will fund four interdisciplinary initiatives that seek to advance global innovation in clean energy, protein design, big data science and neuroengineering.