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Fred Hutch announces 2021 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award recipients
Thirteen graduate students selected for prestigious honor in biological sciences Photos of award recipients Jeremy Mseitif
SEATTLE March 1, 2021 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center today announced the recipients of the 2021 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement in graduate studies in the biological sciences. The 13 award recipients were selected for the quality, originality and significance of their work, representing a diverse range of research topics.
Nominations for this prestigious annual award are solicited internationally. This year’s awardees come from across the U.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to Harvard University and three international recipients from the University of Basel, Switzerland, the University of St. Andrews, UK, and the
Outwitting the foe: predicting evolved antibody escape in SARS-CoV-2
From the Bloom Lab (Basic Sciences Division) January 18, 2021 • By A Isabella
The Covid-19 pandemic has redefined normalcy in our lives. But humans are a resilient species, and we have, though not without much pain and heartache, admirably adjusted to this ‘new normal’ a mere year after the virus’s emergence on the world stage. Unfortunately, to compound the challenges, it seems that every time we get our feet beneath us, the pandemic presents a new challenge to throw us back into uncertainty. A second wave. Airborne spread. A third wave. A vaccine. And now: B.1.1.7.; 501.V2; B.1.1.248. This cryptic code represents the latest frightening development in the pandemic – from the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil, reports of new and worrying mutant variants of the virus. So far, these variants appear to primarily affect virus transmissibility. But at a time when we are finally a