Research Programs

The following research centers are housed within the Harborview Research & Training (HRT) Building and the Ninth & Jefferson Building, floor 3 (3NJB).

The mission of the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions (GIBHS) at UW Medicine is to improve the health for the millions of people at risk for and affected by mental health, substance use and other brain health disorders.

Pravetoni, Marco

The Kidney Research Institute is a collaboration between Northwest Kidney Centers and UW Medicine focused on developing early detection, prevention and treatment of kidney disease and its complications.

Bansal, Nisha 
De Boer, Ian H. (Director) 
Kelly, Edward J 
Kestenbaum, Bryan 
Mehrotra, Rajnish 
Rivara, Matthew B 
Wong, Susan Pamela Yi 
Zelnick, Leila

The mission of the UW Medicine Memory and Brain Wellness Center is to promote the well-being of persons living with memory loss and their families, by providing exceptional care, advancing scientific understanding in the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, and building dementia-friendly communities.

Darvas, Martin
Gonzalez-Cuyar, Luis
Hanson, Angela
Levitt, Michael
Poolos, Nicholas
Reed, May J (Gerontology)
Shi, Min
Stewart, Tessandra
Walker, Melanie
Kim, Louis
Fillingham, Patrick
Carroll, Jeff

The UW Medicine Biorepository and Integrated Research (BRaIN) laboratory, led by C. Dirk Keene, MD, PhD, is working to perform and support research to understand normal brain anatomy and function and how this changes in injury and disease, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and others.

Keene, C. Dirk
Latimer, Caitlin
Nolan, Amber

The mission of the RESCU Center is to discover, engineer, and translate a new generation of technology that will break through current barriers which prevent wide dissemination of advanced resuscitation.

St. John, Alexander E.
Stern, Susan
White, Nathan

The goal of the Retrovirology Lab is to understand viruses – how they are transmitted, how they evolve, and how they affect their hosts, using a wide range of techniques including next-generation sequencing, culture models and screens, and biochemical/biophysical characterization of viral gene products. The lab’s research is tightly integrated with the clinical laboratories of the University of Washington Medical Center.

Baird, Geoffrey
Greninger, Alex

The Sepsis Center of Research Excellence (SCORE) is a collaborative medical research center focused on sepsis translational science. The mission of SCORE-UW is to improve clinical outcomes globally in critically ill sepsis patients by discovering and advancing sepsis-related science, therapeutics, and medical technologies through shared bioinformatics-based translational science.

Arbabi, Saman
Batraju, Pavan
Brakenridge, Scott C.
Morrell, Eric D.  
O’Keefe, Grant E.
Robinson, Bryce
Phan, Tam N.
Skerrett, Shawn J.  
Stewart, Barclay T.
West, T. Eoin  
Wurfel, Mark M.