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  Dr. Sean Gibbons Promoted to Associate Professor

   Posted on December 2, 2022

  Dr. Sean Gibbons – an expert in microbial ecology and evolution, computational systems biology, the human gut microbiome and its impacts on health, and head of ISB’s Gibbons Lab – has been promoted to Associate Professor. “Sean’s achievements since joining ISB in 2018 as a Washington Research Foundation Distinguished Investigator have been spectacular,” ISB President Dr. Jim Heath said. “With his focus on the microbiome, he brought a whole new…

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  AmeriCorps Member Sara Calder Joins ISB as Systems Health and STEM Coordinator

   Posted on November 28, 2022

  Sara Calder recently joined ISB as Systems Health and STEM Coordinator, and is our second-ever AmeriCorps member. In this Q&A, Calder shares her education journey, her future plans, and much more.

• In First-of-Its-Kind Trial, Scientists Use CRISPR to Treat Cancer

   Posted on November 10, 2022

  Scientists for the first time have used CRISPR to substitute a gene to treat patients with cancer. The remarkable findings were published in the journal Nature and presented at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) 2022.