UW Medicine

William Banks

William Banks

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Professor, Division of Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science

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Decline in blood-brain barrier function during aging Dr. Banks is Professor, Division of Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine and Associate Director for Research of the Puget Sound Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center. The major focus of his research is the study of how the brain and body communicate with one another through the transfer of […]

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Antonio Bedalov

Antonio Bedalov

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Associate Member, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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Genome replication and its role in aging Dr. Bedalov is an Associate Member in the Clinical Research Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.  Dr. Bedalov is a bone marrow transplant specialist who treats people for blood disorders, leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma and myelodysplastic syndrome.  He runs an active research laboratory that uses S. […]

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Paul Crane, MD, MPH

Paul Crane, MD, MPH

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Professor, UW Department of Medicine
Adjunct Associate Professor, UW Department of Health Services
Psychometrics Component Lead, Clinical Core, ADRC

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Dr. Crane is a general internist based at Harborview with a broad spectrum of research interests. Dr. Cran serves as multiple principle investigator (MPI) of the Adult Changes in Thought study.  ACT is a prospective cohort study of older adults who are members of Kaiser Permanente Washington (KPW).  The study enrolls randomly selected individuals over […]

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Mary-Claire King

Mary-Claire King

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Professor of Genome Sciences
Professor of Medical Genetics

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Aging factors in complex heritable conditions. Dr. King’s group uses next generation sequencing approaches to identify genes responsible for complex human conditions. Since the 1970s, her group has exploited approaches from genetics, then molecular biology, then genomics to discover and characterize genes for inherited disease. There are four areas of her work that offer insights […]

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Brian Kraemer

Brian Kraemer

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Associate Director, Research Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center
Research Professor

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As an investigator at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Dr. Kraemer’s research explores how protein aggregation contributes to neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Kraemer has developed animal models of the TDP-43 pathology seen in ALS and the tau pathology seen in Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias using both transgenic mice and transgenic C. elegans. Dr. […]

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Nicole Liachko

Nicole Liachko

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Research Assistant Professor

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Nicole Liachko, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Washington, and a Core Investigator in the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System (VA PSHCS).  Dr. Liachko’s research program centers on understanding the biology […]

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May J. Reed

May J. Reed

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Associate Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Section Chief, Harborview Medical Center
Medical Director, Senior Care Clinic

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Dr. Reed graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She came to University of Washington to train in clinical geriatrics and aging research. Dr. Reed is Section Chief of Geriatric Medicine at Harborview, Medical Director of the HMC Senior Care Clinic and UW Associate Professor in […]

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