Congratulations to Theresa Guilbert, MD, on receiving a New Investigator award from the Wisconsin Partnership Program – Medical Education and Research Committee. She was awarded $100,000 for her two-year project, “Clinical and Public Health Data …
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Dr. De-Ann Pillers Awarded Meriter Foundation Grant
Congratulations to De-Ann Pillers, MD, PhD on her recent grant of $47,176 from the Meriter Foundation. This is for her 1-year project, “Understanding Chronic Lung Disease (CLD) of the Premature Infant as a First Step …
Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, Awarded Meriter Foundation Grant
Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, was just awarded a grant of $47,856 from the Meriter Foundation for his 1-year project, “The Role of Birth-Related Hormones in Retinopathy of Prematurity.” As advances in neonatal care have improved survival …
Philip Giampietro, MD, PhD, Awarded Project Funding
Dr. Philip Giampietro, MD, PhD, was recently awarded $315,000 for his 1 year project, “Analyzing environmental exposures and candidate genes in congenital vertebral malformations.” The contract was awarded as part of the National Children’s Study …
Dr. Megan Moreno Receives $2.5 Million Grant for Five Year Project
Dr. Megan Moreno, MD, MSEd, MPH, recently received a research project grant (R01) awarded at just under $2.5 million in total cost for her 5-year project, “Using Media to Explore Mechanisms of Behavior Change Among …
Dr. Sondel and AFCH Awarded Grant for “Hope on Wheels”
Congratulations to Paul Sondel, MD, PhD and the American Family Children’s Hospital on their recent grant of $100,000 from Hyundai “Hope on Wheels” to support neuroblastoma research focusing on personalized medicine. On September 8, 2010 …
Christine Seroogy, MD, Awarded UW-ICTR Funding
Christine Seroogy, MD, was recently awarded $50,000 from the University of Wisconsin-Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (UW-ICTR), funded by the National Institutes of Health. Her project, “T Regulatory Cells and Childhood Asthma,” hypothesizes that …
Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, Receives the Professor Biswambar Rajguru Oration Award
Congratulations to Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, who was unanimously selected as the 2010 awardee of the Professor Biswambar Rajguru Oration award from the Orissa State Ophthalmological Society, India. This is only the second time this award …
Dr. Philip Giampietro Receives Scoliosis Research Society Funding
Philip Giampietro, MD, PhD, received $100,000 from the Scoliosis Research Society for his 2-year project, “Identification of a Locus for Idiopathic Scoliosis on Chromosome 12p.” The long-term goal of this project is to define the …
Dr. Ellen Wald Receives Thrasher Research Fund Project Funding
Ellen Wald, MD, received $355,569 from the Thrasher Research Fund for her 3-year project, “Short (5 days) versus Long (14 days) Duration of Antimicrobial Therapy for Acute Bacterial Sinusitis in Children. The objective of this …