Lucas Dos Santos Dias, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, Infectious Diseases, received a two-year, $140,752 American Heart Association (AHA) postdoctoral fellowship for his proposal, “Vaccine prevention of cardiovascular fungal infections.” The project is co-sponsored by mentors Marcel Wüthrich, PhD, distinguished …
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Pediatrics faculty share expertise: August 2021
University of Wisconsin Department of Pediatrics faculty and researchers are at the forefront of media coverage as local, state, and national journalists seek out experts on the topics of child health, parenting, vaccinations, and Covid-19, …
Kelsey Lewis receives ICTR AHEAD grant
Kelsey Lewis, PhD, honorary fellow in the Department of Pediatrics and Wittig Postdoctoral Fellow in Feminist Biology at the Center for Research on Gender and Women, along with mentor, Jennifer Rehm, MD, assistant professor, Endocrinology and Diabetes, and …
Arij Beshish awarded fellowship from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Congratulations to Arij Beshish, MD, PhD, pediatric fellow, who was recently awarded a fellowship from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. This two-year award, in the amount of $131,500 in direct costs, will support her comprehensive pulmonary fellowship training …
What we published in August 2021
University of Wisconsin Department of Pediatrics faculty and researchers published fifteen articles in August 2021: Allen BJ, Stratman ZE, Kerr BR, Zhao Q, Moreno MA. Associations Between Psychosocial Measures and Digital Media Use Among Transgender Youth: Cross-sectional Study. JMIR …
Christian Capitini receives endowed professorship
The Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs has appointed Christian Capitini, MD, associate professor, to the Jean R. Finley Professor in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. This endowed professorship is for a five-year term …
Amy Erbe-Gurel receives Pablove Foundation grant
Congratulations to Principal Investigator Amy Erbe-Gurel, PhD, associate scientist in the Sondel Lab, who was recently awarded a one-year $52,500 grant from The Pablove Foundation for her project, “Improving specific targeting of neuroblastoma tumors through bispecific SNIPER …
Christian Capitini awarded pilot grant to study new therapies for pediatric solid tumors
Christian Capitini, MD, associate professor, Hematology, Oncology, and Bone Marrow Transplant, along with co-investigator Krishanu Saha, PhD, associate professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, were recently awarded a $50,000 grant from …
Elizabeth Cox joins mentoring team for new NICHD-funded project
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, professor, General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, has joined the mentoring team for a newly funded K01 research career development award for Alejandra Ros Pilarz, PhD, assistant professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin Sandra …
Kent MacLaughlin receives FSID grant
Congratulations to Kent MacLaughlin, a graduate student in the Eldridge Lab, for receiving $45k in funding from the Foundation for the Study of Inflammatory Disease. His project, “The inflammatory and genetic response to oxygen dose,” …