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July 1st, 2025
Congratulations to Val Grillo Alvarado who received a 2-year Graduate Fellowship from the American Society of Hematology!

June 16th, 2025
The Torbett Lab welcomes Liz Platin, a Pathobiology Graduate Student, who will be joining us to undertake their thesis research studies. Welcome to SCRI!

June 16th, 2025
The Torbett Lab welcomes Lidiia Gagarina, a M3D Graduate Student, who will be joining us and Chris Peterson (Fred Hutch) Group to undertake her thesis research studies. Welcome to SCRI!

April 10th, 2025
Congratulations to Christian Gallardo upon his acceptance of a Senior Scientist position with Twist Bioscience in San Francisco!

March 7th, 2025
Bruce Torbett was invited to presented “Proteomic mapping of HIV-1 cellular dependency factors during viral assembly” at the New Insights into HIV Eradication during the Palm Springs Symposium on HIV/AIDS.

November 25th, 2024
Bruce Torbett was invited to presented “Quantitative Proteomic Mapping of the Cellular Microenvironment of HIV-1 Gag during Assembly via Split-APEX2 Mediated Proximity Labeling” at The University Hospital Köln.

November 22nd, 2024
Bruce Torbett was invited to present “HIV immunoadhesion gene delivery to hematopoietic and B cells” at the Humanized mice: Immunotherapy and regenerative medicine EMBO Workshop.

October 4th, 2024
Christian Gallardo and Mia Faerch gave oral presentations on their work decoding the spliced HIV-1 transcriptome and on rational design and evaluation of lenacapavir analogs at the “Capsid/Gag – Structure, Host Factors, and Inhibitors” section of the 2024 West Coast Retrovirus Meeting. Jade Wolff won best poster for a poster on her work on the involvement of cellular protein RAB35 in HIV-1 production.

June 16th, 2024
The Torbett Lab welcomes Annabelle Souza, a Pathobiology Graduate Student, who will be joining us to undertake their thesis research studies. Welcome to SCRI!

May 17th, 2024
Torbett Lab Undergrads Lidiia Gagarina and Rithika Sivakumar present posters at the 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium. UW Post-Baccalaureate Fellow Corinne Thomas presents at the “Pathogens and Host Cells” Oral Session. Congratulations!

May 9th, 2024
The Torbett Lab congratulates Christian Gallardo for his New Investigator Award from the UW/Fred Hutch CFAR. The title of his two-year project is “Discovery of Isoform-specific HIV-1 vRNA structured motifs via single molecule long-read sequencing”.

May 9th, 2024
Chet Ojha and Craig Schindewolf present a poster titled “B cell Production of the eCD4-Ig-Knob-in Hole-Reversed HIV-1 Immunoadhesin in Humanized NBSGW Mice” at the 27th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy.

April 22nd, 2024
The Torbett Lab moves to Building Cure at the Seattle Children’s Research Institute Downtown Campus.

January 8th, 2024
The Torbett Lab welcomes Kurt Berckmueller who is joining us as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome to SCRI!