Career development awards from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) and the National Institutes of Health are helping Christian Capitini, MD, in his quest for a new immunotherapy treatment for leukemia. Reprogramming …
Month: September 2015
Sujani Kakumanu, MD, Awarded Cooperative Agreement from DHHS
Congratulations to Sujani Kakumanu, MD, FAAAAI, on her 1-year, $100,000 award entitled, “Improving school health partnerships, health literacy and coordination of pediatric asthma care by forging a novel health information exchange in Madison, Wisconsin.” This …
Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, Awarded NIH/New Investigator R01 Grant
Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, was recently awarded a 4-year New Investigator R01 award through the National Eye Institute (NEI) Audacious Goals Initiative from the National Institutes of Health/NEI for his project entitled, “Molecular Therapies for Lebers …
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, Awarded Two ICTR-CAP PCOR Grants
Congratulations to Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, who was recently awarded two 1-year grants through the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Community-Academic Partnerships (ICTR-CAP) 2015 Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Program. The first award, in …
Hrissanthi Ikonomidou, MD, PhD, and Diane Puccetti, MD, Awarded ICTR Basic & Clinical Pilot Award
Congratulations to Co-PIs Hrissanthi Ikonomidou, MD, PhD (Neurology), and Diane Puccetti, MD, who were awarded a Basic and Clinical Pilot award from the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) for their proposal entitled …
Darin Wiesner, PhD, Awarded Hartwell Foundation Fellowship
Darin Wiesner, PhD, postdoctoral student in the lab of Bruce Klein, MD, was recently awarded a Hartwell Foundation Fellowship in the amount of $100,000. This two-year award will allow him to study the early recognition …
Kirsten Schultz Invited to Stanford University’s Medicine X Conference
Because of her patient experience advocacy work, Kirsten Shultz has been invited to attend Stanford University’s Medicine X conference, Sept. 25-27, 2015. The conference brings together multiple stakeholders in health care – insurance, physicians, clinical …
Mario Otto, MD, PhD, Receives Hyundai Scholar Hope Grant
Hyundai Hope on Wheels has awarded a $250,000 Hyundai Scholar Hope Grant to Mario Otto, MD, PhD, in support of his research on childhood cancer. As the newest Hyundai scholar, Dr. Otto will use the …