M. Tracy Bekx, MD received a Youth Health Transition Quality Improvement Grant in the amount of $20,250 from the Waisman Center of the University of Wisconsin- Madison. This one-year award, for her project entitled “Transition …
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Michael Rock, MD, Receives Grant for Cystic Fibrosis Center
Michael Rock, MD, was recently awarded an Additional Research Coordinator (ARC) Award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics, Inc. (CFFT). This two-year award, in the amount of $177,755, will provide support for an additional research …
Kathleen Shanovich, NP, Awarded Asthma Grant
Congratulations to Kathleen Shanovich and collaborators with the AFCH Asthma Advocacy Program, Madison Metropolitan School District, and UW Health Pediatrics, who were awarded a Wisconsin Asthma Coalition mini grant in the amount of $9,995 for …
Judith Smith, MD, PhD, Receives Graduate School Fall Competition Award
Congratulations to Judith Smith, MD, PhD, on her recent award of $75,460 from the UW Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education. This one-year award for her project entitled, “Immunogenetics of axial …
Marlowe Eldridge, MD, Receives Graduate School Fall Competition Award
Marlowe Eldridge, MD, was awarded $65,761 for his project entitled, “Cardiac contractile function and glucose metabolism in postmenopausal women during exercise: Effects of estrogen.” This one-year award from the UW Office of the Vice Chancellor …
New Therapies for Inherited Retinal Disease LCA16?
A new grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Eye Institute Audacious Goals Initiative will allow Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, to identify new therapeutic pathways for Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), an inherited retinal degenerative disease …
Sondel Lab Graduate Student Receives Award
Zulmarie Perez-Horta, PhD student in the lab of Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, was a recent recipient of the First Place Award for Graduate Student Research for her research poster at the 2nd Annual Puerto Rico …
Neonatology Researchers Receive $120,000 in Meriter Foundation Grants
Congratulations to five investigators from the Division of Neonatology & Newborn Nursery who were recently awarded nearly $120,000 in total funding from the Meriter Foundation Research and Education Grants Program. The awards will support four …
Robert Strait, MD, Awarded Endocrine Fellows Foundation Research Grant
Congratulations to Robert Strait, MD, Endocrinology/Diabetes fellow, who was recently awarded an Endocrine Fellows Foundation (EFF) Research Grant in the amount of $5,000, funded by the EFF. This 1-year award, for his project entitled, “HPA …
Remembering Nasrollah Shahidi, MD, First Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Division Head
Nasrollah (Nasr) Shahidi, MD, emeritus professor of pediatrics, died on November 30, 2015. He was the first head of the University of Wisconsin Department of Pediatrics’ Division of Hematology and Oncology, a world leader in …