Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, was recently awarded $150,000 over 3 years from the UW Eye Research Institute’s Rebecca Meyer Brown/Retina Research Foundation Professorship for his project, “Mechanisms Underlying Kir7.1 Mutation Causing Snowflake Vitreoretinal Degeneration.” This study …
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Dr. Christine Seroogy Receives MACC Funding
Christine Seroogy, MD, received $50,000 from the Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer for her project, “The Gene Related to Anergy in Lymphocytes, GRAIL, and its implications in tumor anergy.” This project hopes to give a …
Sinisa Dovat, MD, DSc, Receives MACC Award
Sinisa Dovat, MD, DSc, was awarded $50,000 from the Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer for his project, “The Role of Ikaros in Malignant Transformation.” The goal of this project is to understand the mechanism by …
Dr. Kenneth DeSantes Awarded MACC Funding
Kenneth DeSantes, MD, was recently awarded $50,000 from the Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer for, “Support for Clinical Research Infrastructure.” This project will support data management and coordination of clinical research for the American Family …
Dr. James Conway Awarded AAP Special Achievement Award
Congratulations to Jim Conway, MD, who was recently awarded the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) Special Achievement Award for distinguished service and dedication to the mission and goals of the Academy. Jim was noted for …
Dr. Sharon Bartosh Named Recipient of the University of Scranton’s Frank J. O’Hara Award
Dr. Sharon Bartosh received the University of Scranton’s Frank J. O’Hara Award for Medicine during the June 12 alumni reunion weekend on the Pennsylvania campus. The O’Hara Award is the highest award bestowed jointly by …
Drs. Aaron Carrel and Vanessa Curtis Awarded Genentech Funding
Drs. Aaron Carrel and Vanessa Curtis were recently awarded a Genentech grant for their research project: “Contribution of cardiovascular fitness on adipokines may vary by ethnicity and gender.”
Dr. Navsaria Receives AAP’s Special Achievement Award
Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD was named a recipient of the AAP’s Special Achievement Award at the AAP District VI Meeting held June 4-7 in Chicago. Dr. Navsaria was recognized for his “distinguished service and …
Sunny Dovat, MD, Awarded R01 Grant
Congratulations to Sunny Dovat, MD, for his recently awarded R01 grant, “The Role of Zinc Finger Genes in Leukemogenesis,” which has been funded by the National Cancer Insititute, at the maximum allowable modular grant funding …
Steven Koslov, MD, Named Clinical Director of the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
The Department of Pediatrics is pleased to announce that Dr. Steve Koslov has been named Clinical Director of the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (GPAM) in the Department of Pediatrics, effective July 1, …