The following eleven students and their mentors were recently awarded Shapiro Summer Research Awards. The Shapiro Summer Research Program provides opportunities for more than 60 first-year medical students to participate in eight- to 12-week summer …
2015 News
A Focus on Childhood Asthma
As the new president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI), Robert Lemanske, MD, wants to improve school-based care for children with asthma. It’s a focus that not only fits his professional …
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, to Participate in Panel on Patient Engagement in Research
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, will participate in a panel discussion on the role of patients in health services research at AcademyHealth’s upcoming research meeting on June 13 in Minneapolis. She will be joined by a …
Christian Capitini, MD, Receives Vilas Award
Congratulations to Christian Capitini, MD, for winning a Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award from the UW Provost Office. This award, which provides $50,000 in flexible research funds for his laboratory, will be used for …
Christian Capitini, MD, and Medical Student Receive Second Summer Research Award
Congratulations to Christian Capitini, MD, and Medical Student Tara Gavcovich from George Washington University School of Medicine, for their recent grant of $5,000 to support summer research in Dr. Capitini’s Lab. This HONORS (Hematology Opportunities …
Top Abstract Award Given to Christian Capitini, MD
Christian Capitini, MD, was awarded a certificate and $1000 in flexible research funds for his laboratory at the First Annual Immuno-oncology Young Investigator’s Forum in Chicago, IL in May. Dr. Capitini presented one of the …
Drs. Otto and Bednarz Receive NIH Award to Study CLR1404
Congratulations to Mario Otto, MD, PhD, Principal Investigator, and co-PI, Bryan Bednarz, PhD, of the UW Department of Medical Physics, who were recently awarded a 2-year, R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health, National …
Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer Awards Eight Grants
The Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer (MACC) Fund has declared that it will fund each of eight separate grant requests made by the Departments of Pediatrics and Human Oncology. The grants will fund each project …
David McCulley, MD, Selected as ICTR KL2 Scholar to Study Genetics of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernias
Congratulations to David McCulley, MD, for awarding of his UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) grant entitled, “Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia: Genetic Mechanisms of Pulmonary Hypoplasia and Pulmonary Hypertension,” in the amount of $297,594. …
Faculty Receive St. Baldrick’s Summer Fellowship to Fund Medical Students
Congratulations to Christian Capitini, MD, and Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, who were recently awarded a joint St. Baldrick’s Summer Fellowship worth $5,000 to fund two medical students in their respective labs this summer. Tara Gavcovich, …