An academic medical center and research institute, Seattle
Children’s is dedicated to helping junior faculty establish
research careers. Recently, several of our emerging genetics
researchers have made significant contributions to their field.
"The Seattle area has one of the highest concentrations of
geneticists in the world,” notes Dr. Mike Bamshad, professor of
pediatrics at the University of Washington (UW), and director of
Seattle Children’s Research Institute’s Center for Genetics and
Development. "There are phenomenal strengths across many facets
of human genetics research, including technology development,
clinical genetics and translational therapeutics." The culture
of collaboration across departments and schools at the UW and
even institutions throughout Seattle contributes to the junior
faculty’s success. So does senior faculty’s commitment to
fostering their careers. “When we’re recruiting we look at the
scope and the quality of someone’s science and assess how novel
it is, how productive they ar