Congratulations to Katharine Tippins, medical student, and her mentor, Christian Capitini, MD, for receiving a Summer Student Fellowship from St. Baldrick’s Foundation in the amount of $5,000. This 4-month Summer Fellowship is for her project …
Capitini Research Group News
Christian Capitini, MD, Receives Grant from the UW Carbone Cancer Center
Christian Capitini, MD, Principal Investigator, along with UW Co-Principal Investigator Krishanu Saha, PhD (Biomedical Engineering), were recently awarded a one-year $50,000 grant for their project, “Optimization of CD19 CAR NK cells for B cell leukemia,” …
American Family Children’s Hospital First in Wisconsin to Offer Newly-Approved CAR-T Leukemia Therapy
A unique new therapy for children and young adults with a particular form of leukemia received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval on August 30, 2017. American Family Children’s Hospital will be one of a …
MACC Fund Awards 9 Grants
The Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer (MACC) Fund has funded each of nine separate grant requests made by the Departments of Pediatrics and Human Oncology. This marks the 40th year of the MACC Fund, and …
Krishanu Saha, PhD, Christian Capitini, MD, and David Beebe, PhD, Awarded NSF Grant
Congratulations to Krishanu Saha, Principal Investigator, UW Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Co-Principal Investigators Christian Capitini and David Beebe (Department of Biomedical Engineering), on funding of their National Science Foundation (NSF) proposal entitled, “EAGER BIOMANUFACTURING: …
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 …
Nine Students and Mentors Chosen by the Shapiro Summer Research Program
The following nine students and their mentors were recently awarded Shapiro Summer Research Awards. The Shapiro Summer Research Program provides opportunities for first-year medical students to participate in eight- to 12-week summer research projects with …
UW Research Team Moves Cancer Immunotherapy Another Step Ahead
Myriam N. Bouchlaka, PhD, and Christian Capitini, MD, are authors on a new study that provides a key step in monitoring if, and how, the body’s own cancer-killing components are working during immunotherapy. So-called natural …
Christian Capitini, MD, Receives Graduate School Fall Competition Award
Congratulations to Christian Capitini, MD, who was recently awarded a one-year grant from the UW Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education for his project entitled, “Enhancing the graft-versus-tumor effect against neuroblastoma.” …
A New Approach to Leukemia Immunotherapy
Career development awards from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) and the National Institutes of Health are helping Christian Capitini, MD, in his quest for a new immunotherapy treatment for leukemia. Reprogramming …