Congratulations to Judy Smith, MD, PhD, who was awarded a Novel Therapeutics Discovery & Development Pilot award from the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) for her proposal entitled “Development of IL-17 Targeting …
Year: 2015
Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, Awarded ICTR Novel Methods Pilot Grant
Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, was recently awarded a 1-yr, $50,000 Novel Methods Pilot award for his grant entitled, “Murine cancer models for testing in situ vaccination strategies”. This grant from the UW Institute for Clinical …
Ei Terasawa, PhD, Awarded ICTR Translational Research Grant
Ei Terasawa, PhD, was recently awarded a 1-yr, $50,000 Basic & Clinical Translational Research Pilot award for her grant entitled, “Generation of GnRH neurons from stem cells”. This grant from the UW Institute for Clinical …
Pelin Cengiz, MD, Awarded Career Development Grant from NIH
Congratulations to Pelin Cengiz, MD, who received a 5-year, K08 grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH/NINDS), for her project entitled, “Estrogen receptors and TrkB mediated neuroprotection …
Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, Awarded St. Baldrick’s Research Grant
Congratulations to Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, who was awarded a Research Grant from St. Baldrick’s Foundation in the amount of $105,773. In this 1-year project, entitled “Finding the Target of Beneficial Pre-existing Anti-Therapeutic Antibodies,” investigators …
John Hokanson, MD, and SHINE Project Awarded State Contract
In July 2014, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) added, by emergency rule, screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) by pulse oximetry to the Wisconsin Newborn Screening Program’s panel of conditions. This means …
Pediatric Faculty Promotions
The UW School of Medicine and Public Health (UWSMPH) CHS Appointments and Promotions Committee, and Dean Robert Golden, have approved the promotion to Associate Professor (CHS) for Sabrina Butteris, MD, Pelin Cengiz, MD, Shannon Dean, …
Care for Transgender Youth
Transgender youth in the region find medical and emotional support at the multidisciplinary Pediatric and Adolescent Transgender Health (PATH) Clinic at American Family Children’s Hospital, led by Jennifer Rehm, MD, and Brittany Allen, MD. Since …
Seven Undergraduates Awarded Wisconsin Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowships
Congratulations to the following students and their mentors who have been awarded 2015-2016 Wisconsin Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowships. Award recipients receive $3,000 and faculty mentors $500 to sponsor a research project that will be presented …
MEDiC Program Establishes Pediatric Clinic
The UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) MEDiC program has established a new pro bono clinic in Madison specifically for children. The new pediatric clinic is a partnership with the Center for Families …