immunology

December 4, 2021

Why get a booster?

Marion Pepper of the School of Medicine helps us better understand the latest COVID-19 shot.


January 17, 2017

Michael Gale

Zeroing in on Zika

In South Lake Union, a UW lab races to halt the Zika virus.


June 1, 1998

George Hitchings dies

George Hitchings, '27, '28, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1988 for pharmaceutical research that led to the creation of drugs and eventually made organ transplants possible.


September 1, 1996

Genes unlock the mysteries of the immune system

Scientists have uncovered some powerful and surprising information about the human immune system.


June 1, 1994

Calling the shots

William Foege, a 1961 graduate of the UW School of Medicine, has been named the 1994 UW Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus.