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

BBI’s Jay Shendure and Helen Chu Brief Washington Governor Jay Inslee on Progress on COVID-19

April 19, 2021 | By BrotmanBaty

BBI’s Scientific Director Dr. Jay Shendure and Principal Investigator Dr. Helen Chu briefed Washington Governor Jay Inslee on Friday (April 16th) on the institute’s work regarding the Seattle Flu Study, progress on studying COVID-19 transmission and variants, and other issues. Dr. Paul Ramsey, UW Medicine CEO, also participated in the 25-minute meeting at the...

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

Study of Electronic Health Records Demonstrates Value of Data in Referring Patients for Genetic Testing

June 9, 2021 | By BrotmanBaty

“We have the means to prevent cancer and to detect it early. But we’re not fully using the resources we have.” Dr. Thomas Payne, Professor, UW Department of Medicine; Adjunct Professor, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education The lifetime risk for breast cancer is 13 percent in the U.S. and, in 2021, the American Cancer...

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BBI Faculty Conversations – Dr. Sarah Leary

June 1, 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 ‘Catalytic Collaboration’ Grant Leads to ‘Extraordinary’ Progress in Research for Directing Treatment of Multiple Myeloma Patients

May 28, 2021 | By BrotmanBaty

“Although recent advances have led to a surge in the number of therapies available to treat Multiple Myeloma, it remains a challenge to identify...

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Learn more how BBI’s Dr. Fuki Hisama @FukiHisama is studying electronic health records to identify genetic links to cancer in women https://t.co/leyXOvfbyI

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BBI’s Larry Corey quoted in @ScienceMagazine article on COVID ‘most important yet-to-be-done study’

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11 Jun

BBI’s Dr. Thomas Payne @TomPayne2 believed electronic health records are vital resource to detect women’s genetic predisposition to cancer. Learn more at https://t.co/leyXOuXAa8

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10 Jun

Our latest preprint, from the brilliant @CXchengxiangQIU, systematically integrates a series of single cell RNA-seq datasets that collectively span mouse gastrulation and organogenesis (E3.5 – E13.5) (1/4)

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10 Jun

The Online Journal of Public Health discusses #WANotify - the Bluetooth exposure notification tool for COVID-19 in Washington State. The tool was developed through collaboration between @UW the BBI team & the @WADeptHealth - read the story here:

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