Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD, recently appeared on Alaska Public Radio’s Line One: Your Health Connection. He joined Dr. Thad Woodard to discuss the important effects of reading and stress on the early childhood brain …
News
Dr. Sabrina Butteris to Serve on American Board of Pediatrics’ Global Health Task Force
Congratulations to Dr. Sabrina Butteris, who has been selected to serve on the American Board of Pediatrics’ Global Health Task Force. This group is comprised of national and international leaders in the global health community, …
Dr. Elizabeth Cox Receives $2 Million Award from Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Dr. Elizabeth Cox has received a $2 million dollar award to implement and evaluate a patient-centered approach to improving outcomes for kids with Type I diabetes. She was awarded $2 million over three years by …
Dr. Paul Sondel Receives $250,000 Hyundai Hope On Wheels Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Paul Sondel and his research team as they were selected to receive $250,000 from Hyundai Hope On Wheels and Madison area Hyundai dealers. Since 1998, “Hope on Wheels” has donated more than …
Mario Otto, MD, PhD, Receives Education Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Mario Otto for being selected as a recipient of an educational grant from Miltenyi Biotec, Inc. in the amount of $2,500. The grant will support his travel costs to the CliniMACS Prodigy …
Advancing Therapy for LCA16
In his laboratory, Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, investigates potassium channel mutations in retinal cells—mutations that are associated with Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), a genetic disease that causes blindness at birth. Now, thanks to a $1 million-plus …
David McCulley, MD, Receives UW-ICTR Grant
Congratulations to David McCulley, MD, for his recent award of $50,000 from the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (UW-ICTR) type 1 pilot grant program. His project, “Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia: Genetic Basis and Stem …
Dr. Paul Sondel Awarded UW-ICTR Grant
Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, was recently awarded a grant of $50,000 from the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (UW-ICTR) type 1 pilot grant program for his project, “In Depth Delineation of FcyRIIc and …
Reducing CF ‘False Positives’
Thanks to universal screening protocols, newborns in every state are routinely tested for cystic fibrosis (CF)—a life-threatening disease that occurs in 1 of every 4,000 births—through a simple blood test. Most of the time, the …
David Wargowski to Discuss the Human Genome Project’s 10th Anniversary on Indiana’s NPR Radio Show
Dr. David Wargowski is scheduled to appear Sunday on Indiana public radio’s Sound Medicine to talk about the 10th anniversary of the Human Genome Project. The radiocast will be available afterward at http://www.soundmedicine.org/. Sound Medicine …