Ryan McAdams, MD (Associate Professor and Division Chief, Division of Neonatology and Newborn Nursery), along with undergraduate engineering students Akshith Mandepally and Cara Stanker, received a Wisconsin Idea Fellowship to develop an affordable, effective, and durable solar-powered air …
2018 News
Supporting Children with Medical Complexity
Mary Ehlenbach, MD (Assistant Professor [CHS], Division of Hospital Medicine), received the inaugural Paster Family Foundation Innovation Award for her work to design and implement the Pediatric Complex Care Program (PCCP) at American Family Children’ …
HuiChuan Lai, PhD, RD, Awarded NIH Funding with Emory University
Congratulations to HuiChuan Lai, PhD, RD, who will serve as a Co-Investigator/Subaward Principal Investigator for a grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NIH-NHLBI) to Emory University, entitled, “Method Development …
Pediatric Faculty Members Help Lead Two Collaborative Health Sciences Grants
Jacques Galipeau, MD (Principal Investigator, Department of Medicine) and Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, Co-Principal Investigator, along with Collaborators Douglas McNeel, MD, PhD (Medicine) and David Beebe, PhD (Biomedical Engineering) and investigators from their labs, were …
Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, Collaborates on NIH Grant
Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, will take part in a U01 grant recently awarded to Principal Investigators Zachary Morris, MD, PhD, (Human Oncology) and Jamey Weichert, PhD, (Radiology). Their grant, entitled, “Immunomodulation of the Tumor Microenvironment …
The Caffeine-Kidney Connection
A medication derived from caffeine that neonatologists routinely use to prevent respiratory problems in premature babies may also help improve the health of their kidneys. Earlier research led by Matthew Harer, MD, an assistant professor …
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 …
UW Health Primary Care Clinics Lead the Way in Immunization Rates
Through incredible teamwork to raise awareness about the importance of childhood and adolescent immunizations and vaccinations, UW Health primary care clinics achieved impressive rankings for immunizations, as measured by the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality. …
How Young Teens See the Smartphone Debate: UW Research Provides Novel Findings
Young adolescents think a child’s maturity, not necessarily age, should be a factor in when a child gets a smartphone – and they worry about using that phone to bully other children. As debate rages …
Paul Sondel, MD, PhD and Team Awarded U54 Subaward from NIH/NCI and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Congratulations to Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, Subaward Principal Investigator, and UW Team Members, Amy Erbe-Gurel, PhD, Jacquelyn Hank, PhD, Zachary Morris, MD, PhD, and Alexander Rakhmilevich, MD, PhD, for their recent subaward through the Children’s …