Congratulations to Tyler Schroeder, a Research Assistant in Dr. De-Ann Pillers’ lab, who recently received two research awards. He was awarded a $2,000 grant-in-aid award from Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, for his project …
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Dr. De-Ann Pillers Awarded Hartwell Foundation Project Funding
De-Ann Pillers, MD, PhD, was recently awarded $300,000 from the Hartwell Foundation for her 3-year project, “Genetics of the Innate Immune Response of the Infant as a Potential Biomarker for Premature Birth.” The goal of …
Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, Awarded UW-ICTR Funding
Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, was awarded $50,000 from the University of Wisconsin-Institute of Clinical and Translational Research (UW-ICTR), funded by the National Institutes of Health, for his project, “Human RPE cell electrophysiology to model eye-disease.” This …
Dr. Ellen Wald Receives Thrasher Research Fund Project Funding
Ellen Wald, MD, received $355,569 from the Thrasher Research Fund for her 3-year project, “Short (5 days) versus Long (14 days) Duration of Antimicrobial Therapy for Acute Bacterial Sinusitis in Children. The objective of this …
Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, Receives the Professor Biswambar Rajguru Oration Award
Congratulations to Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, who was unanimously selected as the 2010 awardee of the Professor Biswambar Rajguru Oration award from the Orissa State Ophthalmological Society, India. This is only the second time this award …
Dr. Philip Giampietro Receives Scoliosis Research Society Funding
Philip Giampietro, MD, PhD, received $100,000 from the Scoliosis Research Society for his 2-year project, “Identification of a Locus for Idiopathic Scoliosis on Chromosome 12p.” The long-term goal of this project is to define the …
Jen Rehm, MD, Receives Two Awards for Research Efforts
Congratulations to Pediatric Endocrine/Diabetes Fellow Dr. Jen Rehm, recently recognized with two different awards for her research efforts. The first, from the Marilyn Fishman Grant for Diabetes Research, is for her project titled, “Prevalence of …
Dr. Theresa Guilbert Recieves Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation’s Champion In Women’s Health Award
Congratulations to Dr. Theresa Guilbert, recently awarded the Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation’s Champion In Women’s Health Award. The award is given to honor individuals who have demonstrated exemplary leadership and who have devoted themselves to …
Dr. Elizabeth Cox Awarded Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Funding
Dean Robert Golden, MD, received $194,246 from The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations for his 18-month project, “Family-Centered Bedside Rounds,” in which Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD is the Co-Investigator. This project will develop and evaluate a …
Josh Ross, MD, Awarded Best Overall Presentation at Research Forum
Congratulations to Dr. Josh Ross, recently awarded the best overall presentation at the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Emergency Medicine research forum. This award, in is eighteenth year, was made to Dr. Ross for his presentation, …