Ei Terasawa, PhD, was recently awarded a 1-yr, $50,000 Basic & Clinical Translational Research Pilot award for her grant entitled, “Generation of GnRH neurons from stem cells”. This grant from the UW Institute for Clinical …
2015 News
Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, Awarded ICTR Novel Methods Pilot Grant
Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, was recently awarded a 1-yr, $50,000 Novel Methods Pilot award for his grant entitled, “Murine cancer models for testing in situ vaccination strategies”. This grant from the UW Institute for Clinical …
Judy Smith, MD, PhD, Awarded ICTR Novel Therapeutics Pilot Grant
Congratulations to Judy Smith, MD, PhD, who was awarded a Novel Therapeutics Discovery & Development Pilot award from the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) for her proposal entitled “Development of IL-17 Targeting …
Brittany Allen, MD and Jennifer Rehm, MD, Awarded Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Grant
Congratulations to Brittany Allen, MD, Principal Investigator, and Jennifer Rehm, MD, Co-Principal Investigator, on funding of their grant entitled, “An Integrated PATH for Transgender Youth.” This $80,000, 2-year award, funded by the Ira and Ineva …
David Wargowski, MD, Receives Living Our Mission Award From St. Vincent
David Wargowski, MD, has been given the Living Our Mission award by St. Vincent Hospital. The Living Our Mission award is given to colleagues who demonstrate the core values of Respect, Care, Competence and Joy. …
Robert Lemanske, MD, Named ICTR Deputy Executive Director and Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research
Robert Lemanske, MD, has been named the deputy executive director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) and associate dean for clinical and translational research at the UW School of Medicine and Public …
John Hokanson, MD, and SHINE Project Awarded State Contract
In July 2014, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) added, by emergency rule, screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) by pulse oximetry to the Wisconsin Newborn Screening Program’s panel of conditions. This means …
Care for Transgender Youth
Transgender youth in the region find medical and emotional support at the multidisciplinary Pediatric and Adolescent Transgender Health (PATH) Clinic at American Family Children’s Hospital, led by Jennifer Rehm, MD, and Brittany Allen, MD. Since …
Undergraduate Awarded a 2015 Sophomore Research Fellowship for Research in Sondel Lab
Congratulations to undergraduate student Swetha Saseedhar who was awarded a 2015 Sophomore Research Fellowship for the project, “A New Immunocytokine to Selectively Activate Immune Cells Expressing Intermediate Affinity IL-2 Receptors within the Tumor Microenvironment.” Advisors …
Undergraduate Awarded Welton Summer Sophomore Honors Apprenticeship for Research in Seroogy Lab
Congratulations to undergraduate student Jiaying Lai who was awarded a Welton Summer Sophomore Honors Apprenticeship for the project, “Utilization of a novel knock-out mouse to test the intrinsic requirement for Gene Related to Anergy in …