Bikash Pattnaik receives global fellowship to investigate new therapies for rare inherited blindness

India’s Ministry of Science and Technology recently awarded a VAIshwikBHArtiyaVaigyanik (VAIBHAV) fellowship to Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, associate professor in the Division of Neonatology and Newborn Nursery, leader of the Pattnaik Research Group, and an affiliate …

Jenny Cape wins best poster award at 2025 Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics

Second-year medical student Jenny Cape, who completed a Shapiro summer research project with Eileen Cowan, MD, associate professor, Division of Neonatology and Newborn Nursery; and Kirstin Nackers, MD, associate professor, Division of Hospital Medicine and Complex Care, …

Wisconsin at PAS 2025

University of Wisconsin Department of Pediatrics faculty, trainees, and staff will be heading to the Aloha State for the 2025 Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) meeting April 24–28. These department members will be presenting and contributing …

The leap from a K to an R grant is a big advance in a researcher’s career: Physician-scientist Michelle Kelly exemplifies that evolution

Since last fall, Michelle Kelly, MD, PhD, professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine and Complex Care, and her research group have been continuing research on her ongoing project. The new five-year $1.99 million R01 …