Congratulations to Paul Sondel, MD, Principal Investigator, and Co-Principal Investigators, Mario Otto, MD, PhD, Jamey Weichert, PhD, Zachary Morris, MD, PhD, and Bryan Bednarz, PhD, for receiving a UW2020 WARF Discovery Initiative grant for their …
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Improving Care for Inherited Cholesterol Disorders
A Genetic Disorder Requiring Early Diagnosis Thanks to funding support from a Wisconsin Partnership Program Opportunity Grant, Dr. Peterson will lead the Wisconsin Pediatric Lipid Consortium, a partnership between UW Health, Dean Health Systems, Gundersen …
James Gern, MD, Leads $15 Million Grant to Study How Environmental Exposures Affect Childhood Asthma
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health a two-year, $15 million grant to establish and oversee the Children’s Respiratory Research and Environment Workgroup (CREW) …
Shedding Light on Rare Kidney Diseases
The Division of Nephrology’s Sharon Bartosh, MD, along with her colleagues, is part of a national, multi-site, National Institutes of Health-sponsored trial that aims to understand more fully and improve treatment for a set of …
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, Releases PRISM Toolkit to Identify Type 1 Diabetes Self-Management Barriers
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, director of the Program of Research on Outcomes for Kids (PROKids), has released a toolkit to support identification of type 1 diabetes self-management barriers for children and adolescents. The toolkit, Problem …
Collaborative Funded to Improve Screening for Intimate Partner Violence
Dr. Elizabeth Cox, associate professor of pediatrics at UW-Madison, in collaboration with Laurie Thompsen, MSW (West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence) and Dr. Danielle Davidov (West Virginia University), received a Tier 1 Eugene Washington Engagement …
Trish Barribeau Awarded Academic Staff Development Grant
Congratulations to Trish Barribeau, MA, Administrative Program and Grant Specialist in Administration – Fiscal, who was recently awarded an Academic Staff Professional Development Grant from UW-Madison in the amount of $1,289 to attend the National …
Anna Huttenlocher, MD Receives R35 Award from NIH
Anna Huttenlocher, MD was recently awarded a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (R35) from National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH-NIGMS) worth over $2.9 million for 5 years, for her research entitled “Cell …
Mario Otto, MD, PhD, Awarded Grant from Cannonball Kids’ Cancer Foundation
Mario Otto, MD, PhD, was recently awarded a 3-year grant in the amount of $75,000 from Cannonball Kids’ Cancer Foundation for his clinical trial entitled, “TCR-α/β+ and CD19+ depleted KIR/KIR ligand-mismatched Haploidentical Hematopoietic Stem Cell …
Transforming Med Student Education
Eighteen Department of Pediatrics faculty are playing key roles in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s (SMPH) MD curriculum transformation, a multi-year initiative that, starting in August 2017, will provide medical students with …