A research team led by Michael MacDonald, MD, has discovered a genetic cause of a Type I diabetes syndrome that has puzzled investigators for 85 years. In the July issue of the journal Diabetes, the …
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Yashica Seymour Brings it Home
After she graduates in June, pediatric critical care fellow Yashica Seymour, MD, will return to her home country of the Bahamas to become its only pediatric intensivist. Dr. Seymour will work at Princess Margaret Hospital, …
Anticipating Outcomes of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and long-term disability in children, affecting over 30,000 children each year. Although clinicians use advanced neuroimaging tools such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to …
Christian Capitini, MD Receives St. Baldrick’s Summer Fellowship to fund Medical Student
Congratulations to Christian Capitini, MD, who was recently awarded a $5,000 Summer Fellowship from the St. Baldricks’s Foundation, the largest private funder of childhood cancer research grants, to fund a student in his lab this …
Eldridge Lab Students Receive Awards
At the April 2016 Experimental Biology Meeting in San Diego, CA, three students in the laboratory of Marlowe Eldridge, MD, won several awards. Undergraduate students Adelaide (Atzie) Sobotik and Taylor Levin both received the David …
Research & Development Committee Awards Announced
The Department of Pediatrics Research and Development Committee recently awarded grants to thirteen faculty members for the following projects: Awni Al-Subu, MD – Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Incidence and Epidemiology (PARDIE) Study Pelin Cengiz, MD …
Peter Ferrazzano, MD, Awarded NIH-NINDS Funding
Peter Ferrazzano, MD, was recently awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH-NINDS) for his proposal entitled, “MRI Markers of Functional Outcome after Severe Pediatric TBI”. …
Judy Smith, MD, PhD Awarded NIH Funding with Brazil’s Foundation for Research Development
Congratulations to Judy Smith, MD, PhD, who will serve as a Co-Investigator/Subaward Principal Investigator for a grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH-NIAID) to the Foundation for Research …
Undergraduate Student Awarded Wisconsin Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship
Congratulations to undergraduate student Katherine Schleck, and her mentor Christine Sorenson, PhD, who was awarded a 2016-2017 Wisconsin Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship, for the project, “Bim Expression Affects Retinal Astrocytes Adhesion and Migration through Altered …
Pillers-Pattnaik Lab Graduate Student Receives Travel Award
Nathan York, graduate student and research assistant in the lab of De-Ann Pillers, MD, PhD, and Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, recently received a travel award sponsored by the National Institutes of Health/National Eye Institute (NIH-NEI). This …