A Powerful Collaboration For Precision Medicine

Precision medicine, genomics and data science have the potential to transform health care.

UW Medicine, The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Seattle Children’s have co-founded The Brotman Baty Institute to accelerate both the basic sciences of precision medicine and the delivery of benefits to patients.

The Institute is made possible by the generosity of Jeff and Susan Brotman, and Dan and Pam Baty.

Research

NIH Awards BBI Researchers $16 million as Part of ‘Impact of Genome Variation on Function’ Consortium

September 9, 2021 | By BrotmanBaty

BBI will be part of national initiative to understand how variations in DNA sequences affect genome function Written by Michael McCarthy for UW Medicine Newsroom How variations in the DNA sequences in the human genome affect how cells’ function and, ultimately, how these variants influence human health and disease, are critical questions that...

Data & Tools

Seattle Organismal Molecular Atlases (SOMA)

UW Medicine, The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Seattle Children’s have co-founded The Brotman Baty Institute to accelerate both the basic sciences of...

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Data & Tools

BRCA1 Variant Score Database

UW Medicine, The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Seattle Children’s have co-founded The Brotman Baty Institute to accelerate both the basic sciences of...

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News And Results

News

Looking Back and Projecting Ahead as AVE Celebrates One Year

October 21, 2021 | By BrotmanBaty

‘Collectively advancing the promise of the Human Genome Project by interpreting the landscape of human genetic variation’ This October marks the one-year anniversary of the Atlas of Variant Effects (AVE) Alliance. AVE is an international collaborative whose mission is to galvanize and coordinate global efforts to produce multiplexed functional data for human and...

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Scientific American Honors UW Cancer Researcher Colin Pritchard

October 20, 2021 | By BrotmanBaty

Catalyst for Precision Medicine Award recognizes his laboratory medicine advances in cancer testing and diagnostics UW Medicine’s Dr. Colin Pritchard, a leader in molecular diagnostics for cancer, has received the Catalyst for Precision Medicine Award from Scientific American. The honor includes a $50,000 donation, which Pritchard has directed to UW Medicine for students focused...

News

BBI Faculty Conversations – Dr. Taran Gujral

September 28, 2021 | By BrotmanBaty

BBI Faculty Conversations. Check back in soon for more chats with BBI members from our partner institutions. Get an inside view of their...

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BBI’s Dr. Janet Englund offers readers of @HuffPost article context on development of children’s-level doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

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All of @BrotmanBaty offers huge congrats to BBI’s Dr. Colin Pritchard, winner of the 2021 Catalyst for Precision Medicine Award from @sciam. He is designating the $50k award donation to @UWMedicine for students focused on cancer diagnostics.

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19 Oct

Healio story explores new strategies for treating pediatric brain cancer with BBI’s Dr. Nicholas Vitanza who discusses Seattle Children’s BrainChild clinical trials. @VitanzaNick

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18 Oct

Reminder that BBI’s Dr. Colin Pritchard is 1 of 3 finalists nationwide in the ‘Catalyst for Precision Medicine’ category of the Community Cancer Award. Register here for the October 19 awards ceremony.

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14 Oct

BBI’s Jay Shendure and colleagues publish paper in Nature Biotechnology outlining new PRIME-Del technique that offers more precise genomic deletions than CRISPR–Cas9 @JShendure @NatureBiotech
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