A senior scientist at the Waisman Center on the UW campus was killed Friday morning when his car skidded out of control on a slippery rural road and was struck by a pickup truck.
Killed was Vladimir Budker, 64, who lived on Sunrise Ridge Trail in the town of Springfield. Along with his work at the Waisman Center, Budker was a co-founder of the Mirus Bio Corp., a gene therapy firm that has been exploring ways to combat such diseases as muscular dystrophy and anemia.