The following students and their mentors were recently awarded Shapiro Summer Research Awards. The Shapiro Summer Research Program provides opportunities for first-year medical students to participate in eight- to 12-week summer research projects with UW-Madison …
2018 News
Laura Tetri, PhD, Awarded ICTR-MSTP Pilot Award
Congratulations to Laura Tetri, PhD, and mentors Jennifer Rehm, MD and Aaron Carrel, MD, for their recent UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research-Medical Scientist Training Program (ICTR-MSTP) Pilot Award. This $10,000, one-year grant, for …
Christian Capitini, MD, Awarded Research Scholar Grant from American Cancer Society
Christian Capitini, MD, along with Co-Investigators Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, and Sean Fain, PhD (Medical Physics), were recently awarded a four-year, Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society (ACS), for the project entitled, “Ex …
Vivek Balasubramaniam, MD, Awarded a 2017 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award
Congratulations to Vivek Balasubramaniam, MD, who received one of twelve grants awarded nationally by The Hartwell Foundation in their 2017 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award competition. Along with three years and $300,000 of support, Dr. …
Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, Collaborating on UW2020 Grant
Krishanu Saha, PhD (Biomedical Engineering), will lead a team of investigators, including Co-PIs Shaoqin Sarah Gong, PhD (Biomedical Engineering), Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, and David Gamm, MD, PhD (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences), and other collaborators, to …
Graduate Student in Otto Laboratory Awarded ICTR TL1 Grant
Sean Rinella, MPH, Research Assistant in Hematology, Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplant and the Otto Laboratory, was recently awarded a 2-year grant as part of the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) Predoctoral …
Two Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment Grants Awarded to Pediatrics Investigators
Congratulations to Christine Seroogy, MD, PI, and Mei Baker, MD, Co-PI, who were recently awarded a 3-year, $120,000 Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment Grant for their project, “Development and Implementation of Rapid Genetic Test to Improve …
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, Awarded a UW2020 Grant
Congratulations to Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, who was awarded a 2-year UW2020 grant for her project entitled, “Building a Translational Research Pipeline to Personalize Diabetes Prevention and Treatment.” Support for this research was provided by …
Electronic Health Record Improvement by Design
Department of Pediatrics faculty Michael Semanik, MD, MS, and Jeffrey Sleeth, MD, are part of UW Health’s effort to customize how clinical data about a patient’s disease condition is synthesized in HealthLink, the electronic health …
Travel Grants Awarded to Endocrinology Team
Congratulations to Endocrinology/Diabetes fellows Lauren Kanner, MD, Yashoda (Mita) Naik, MD, and Elizabeth Mann, MD for each being selected as recipients of the Pediatric Endocrine Society’s Travel Award for 2018. Each received $400 to support …