Lectures by the 2018 and 2019 Gerard B. Odell Research Award winners, along with rows of research posters filling the Health Sciences Learning Center (HSLC) were among the highlights of the Department of Pediatrics’ 2019 …
Gern Research Group News
Children’s Respiratory and Environmental Workgroup Receives New $68M Award from NIH
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the Children’s Respiratory and Environmental Workgroup (CREW) $68,808,597 for five years to continue collecting standardized data from 10 birth cohorts around the country to better understand environmental causes …
How Farm Exposure Impacts Children’s Respiratory Health
Renewed support from the National Institutes of Health will enable Department of Pediatrics faculty to continue collaborative research into how early farm exposure may reduce respiratory viral illnesses and the risk of allergies, diseases that …
Gern Laboratory Awarded NIH U19 Renewal Funding
Congratulations to James Gern, MD, and Co-Investigators, Christine Seroogy, MD, Anne Palmenberg, PhD, and Yury Bochkov, PhD, on the 5-year, $6.8 million renewal of U19 AI104317, funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute …
Exposure to Pet and Pest Allergens During Infancy Linked to Reduced Asthma Risk
Children exposed to high indoor levels of pet or pest allergens during infancy have a lower risk of developing asthma by seven years of age, new research supported by the National Institutes of Health reveals. …
Study: Early Farm Exposure Mitigates Respiratory Illnesses, Allergies and Skin Rashes
Exposure to dairy farms early in life may dramatically reduce the frequency and severity of respiratory illnesses, allergies and chronic skin rashes among young children, according to a collaborative study by Dr. Christine Seroogy, Dr. …
James Gern, MD, and Bruce Klein, MD Collaborate on UW2020 Grant
Cameron Currie, PhD, will lead a team of investigators, including Co-PIs Andrew Alexander, PhD; Rozalyn Anderson, PhD; David Andes, MD; Barbara Bendlin, PhD; Christopher Coe, PhD; James Gern, MD; Pamela Herd, PhD; Bruce Klein, MD; …
Research & Development Committee Awards Announced
The Department of Pediatrics Research and Development Committee recently awarded grants to six faculty members for the following projects: Awni Al-Subu, MD – UW Pediatric Critical Care Point-of-Care Ultrasound Program Pelin Cengiz, MD – Epigenetic …
James Gern, MD, Leads the CREW
A new national consortium led by James Gern, MD, will work to better understand how genetic and environmental factors interact to cause specific types of childhood asthma. Supported by a new $15 million grant from …
James Gern, MD, Leads $15 Million Grant to Study How Environmental Exposures Affect Childhood Asthma
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health a two-year, $15 million grant to establish and oversee the Children’s Respiratory Research and Environment Workgroup (CREW) …