HuiChuan Lai, PhD, RD, was awarded a 1-year supplement in the amount of $153,000 from the Office of the Director and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes …
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David McCulley, MD, Awarded ICTR Pilot Grant
David McCulley, MD, Principal Investigator, along with Shaoqin Gong, PhD, and Naomi Chesler, PhD, UW College of Engineering, were recently awarded a $50,000 pilot grant from the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR). …
Global Health Prep for Residents
Although nearly 60 percent of U.S. pediatric residency programs offer some type of global health experience, there is considerable variability in how they prepare residents for the clinical, emotional and ethical challenges they may face …
Dr. Elizabeth Cox Awarded 3-year Innovative Translational Science Award From The American Diabetes Association
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD was recently awarded a 3-year Innovative Translational Science Award from the American Diabetes Association for her project, “Identifying Actionable Self-Management Barriers for Adults with Type 1 Diabetes.” Building upon her prior …
Dr. Inga Hofmann Receives $50,000 Infrastructure Grant from St. Baldrick’s Foundation
Dr. Inga Hofmann, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist and director of pediatric stem cell transplantation at the Carbone Cancer Center and medical director of the program for advanced cell therapy, has been awarded $50,000 by the St. …
Opioid and Substance Use Disorders in Children
The national opioid crisis is not just an adult problem. With approximately 467,000 children aged 12 to 17 using pain medication for non-medical purposes in 2014—and 16,000 children using heroin that year (source: SAMHSA)—opioid and …
Dr. Elizabeth Cox, Collaborators Receive PCORI Funding to Improve Patient-Centered Type 2 Diabetes Prevention
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, in collaboration with partners from West Virginia University, recently received approval for a Pipeline to Proposal Tier I award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). This project will focus on …
Dr. Megan Moreno Discusses Screen Time and Teen Suicide Risk
Megan Moreno, MD, MSEd, MPH, an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the chief of the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, recently appeared on News3 to talk about how teenagers’ increased …
Dr. Anna Huttenlocher Elected as an American Society for Cell Biology Fellow
The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) has selected Anna Huttenlocher, MD, a professor in the Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, as one of its 2017 fellows. Election as a fellow of ASCB is …
Nathan York Receives Endocrinology & Reproductive Physiology Training Grant Support
Congratulations to Nathan York, Graduate Research Assistant in the lab of Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, who was recently selected as a Trainee on the National Institutes of Health-funded T32 Endocrinology & Reproductive Physiology (ERP) Training Grant, …