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  2. Year: 2015
  3. Month: December

Month: December 2015

New Therapies for Inherited Retinal Disease LCA16?

Posted on December 1, 2015

A new grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Eye Institute Audacious Goals Initiative will allow Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, to identify new therapeutic pathways for Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), an inherited retinal degenerative disease …

Posted in 2015 News, News, Pattnaik Research Group News

Gern Lab Graduate Student Receives NIH Travel Award

Posted on December 1, 2015

Congratulations to Sarmila Basnet, graduate student in the lab of James Gern, MD, for receiving a travel award from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH-NIAID). She presented a poster …

Posted in 2015 News, Gern Research Group News, News

Sondel Lab Graduate Student Receives Award

Posted on December 1, 2015

Zulmarie Perez-Horta, PhD student in the lab of Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, was a recent recipient of the First Place Award for Graduate Student Research for her research poster at the 2nd Annual Puerto Rico …

Posted in 2015 News, News, Sondel Research Group News

Neonatology Researchers Receive $120,000 in Meriter Foundation Grants

Posted on December 1, 2015

Congratulations to five investigators from the Division of Neonatology & Newborn Nursery who were recently awarded nearly $120,000 in total funding from the Meriter Foundation Research and Education Grants Program. The awards will support four …

Posted in 2015 News, Kling Research Group News, News, Pattnaik Research Group News

Robert Strait, MD, Awarded Endocrine Fellows Foundation Research Grant

Posted on December 1, 2015

Congratulations to Robert Strait, MD, Endocrinology/Diabetes fellow, who was recently awarded an Endocrine Fellows Foundation (EFF) Research Grant in the amount of $5,000, funded by the EFF. This 1-year award, for his project entitled, “HPA …

Posted in 2015 News, News

Remembering Nasrollah Shahidi, MD, First Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Division Head

Posted on December 1, 2015

Nasrollah (Nasr) Shahidi, MD, emeritus professor of pediatrics, died on November 30, 2015. He was the first head of the University of Wisconsin Department of Pediatrics’ Division of Hematology and Oncology, a world leader in …

Posted in 2015 News, News

Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, Consulting On Dr. Safdar’s PCORI-funded Research On Healthcare-Associated Infections

Posted on December 1, 2015

Dr. Elizabeth Cox will consult on new research on healthcare-associated infections (HAI), funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Led by Dr. Nasia Safdar, Associate Chief of Staff for Research at the William S. Middleton VA …

Posted in 2015 News, News, PROKids Research Team News

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