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Capitini Research Group News
What We Published in February 2020
The following scholarly articles were published by Department of Pediatrics faculty and staff during February 2020: Affenzeller S, Wolkenstein K, Frauendorf H, Jackson DJ. Challenging the concept that eumelanin is the polymorphic brown banded pigment …
Travel Grant Awarded to Aicha Quamine
Congratulations to Hematology/Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplant Graduate Student, Aicha Quamine, for being selected as recipient of a Graduate Program in Cellular & Molecular Biology (CMB) Travel Award for Fall 2019. Aicha, a student in …
Dr. Christian Capitini Receives NIH/NCI Grant
Congratulations to Christian Capitini, MD, on his recent one-year supplement of $500,000 to the UW Carbone Cancer Center grant from the National Institutes of Health – National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI). His project, “Image‐guided CAR T …
Sean Rinella, MPH, Selected as “40 Under 40 in Cancer”
Sean Rinella, MPH, an ICTR TL1-supported PhD student, working with mentorship from Christian Capitini, MD and Mario Otto, MD, PhD in their labs, has been selected as one of “40 Under 40 in Cancer” for …
Four Students Mentored by Pediatrics Faculty Named Hilldale Fellows
Four UW-Madison undergraduate students mentored by Department of Pediatrics faculty received 2019 Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellows. The fellowships include a stipend to each student and to their faculty advisers. Adeela Ali (major: Pharmacology & Toxicology; mentor: Christian Capitini, MD) …
Five Pediatrics Faculty Members Accepted to SPR
In 2018, five Department of Pediatrics faculty members were accepted as members of the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR). SPR’s mission is to create a network of multidisciplinary researchers to improve child health. Specifically, it …
Drs. Christian Capitini, David McCulley Named Odell Award Winners for 2018 and 2019
Two Department of Pediatrics faculty – Christian Capitini, MD (Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant) and David McCulley, MD (Assistant Professor, Division of Neonatology and Newborn Nursery) – have been named …
A Combined Strategy to Treat Neuroblastoma
A new preclinical research project led by Department of Pediatrics Assistant Professor Christian Capitini, MD, aims to strengthen the pipeline of immunotherapy treatment approaches for neuroblastoma, the third most common type of childhood cancer. The …
Christian Capitini, MD, Awarded National Cancer Institute Funding
Congratulations to Christian Capitini, MD, and Co-Investigator Sean Fain, PhD, who were recently awarded a 5-year grant from the National Institutes of Health-National Cancer Institute (NIH-NCI) for their project entitled, “Combining hu14.18-IL2 and NK cell …