Mario Otto, MD, PhD, was recently awarded a 3-year grant in the amount of $75,000 from Cannonball Kids’ Cancer Foundation for his clinical trial entitled, “TCR-α/β+ and CD19+ depleted KIR/KIR ligand-mismatched Haploidentical Hematopoietic Stem Cell …
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Transforming Med Student Education
Eighteen Department of Pediatrics faculty are playing key roles in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s (SMPH) MD curriculum transformation, a multi-year initiative that, starting in August 2017, will provide medical students with …
Renovated Fourth-Floor Lab Opens
In May, the Department of Pediatrics opened its renovated research laboratory in the H4/4 module of University Hospital. Over the previous seven months, the lab space had been completely gutted and rebuilt to better meet …
Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, Named M.D. Matthews/Retina Research Foundation Research Professor
Congratulations to Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, who was recently named as the Retina Research Foundation M.D. Matthews Research Professor for 2016-2019. This professorship, with support from the McPherson Eye Research Institute, provides $50,000 annually in support …
Jennifer Rehm, MD, Awarded AHEAD Grant from ICTR
Jennifer Rehm, MD, Principal Investigator, and Brittany Allen, MD, Co-Investigator, were recently awarded a $10,000 pilot grant from the Advancing Health Equity and Diversity (AHEAD) program, of the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research …
Krishanu Saha, PhD, Christian Capitini, MD, and David Beebe, PhD, Awarded NSF Grant
Congratulations to Krishanu Saha, Principal Investigator, UW Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Co-Principal Investigators Christian Capitini and David Beebe (Department of Biomedical Engineering), on funding of their National Science Foundation (NSF) proposal entitled, “EAGER BIOMANUFACTURING: …
Daniel Sklansky, MD, Selected for APPD LEAD Program
Dr. Daniel Sklansky has been selected to participate in a nationally-recognized leadership development program: the Association of Pediatric Program Director’s Leadership in Educational Academic Development (APPD LEAD). APPD LEAD is a program that provides a …
Norman Fost, MD, MPH, to Receive MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics Prize
Congratulations to Dr. Norman Fost, who has been chosen to receive the 2016 MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics and Health Outcomes. The award, given by the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, is the …
Nydiaris Hernandez-Santos, PhD Receives Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Grant
Nydiaris Hernandez-Santos, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Bruce Klein, MD, has been awarded a $60,000, 3-year Postdoctoral Enrichment Program award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. This grant is designed to support the career …
Research Associate Receives Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the AHA
Congratulations to Huafeng Wang, PhD, who was recently awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association (AHA) of $110,300 over 2 years. For his project, “New Adjuvants for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Fungal Infections,” …