Congratulations to Kathleen Shanovich and collaborators with the AFCH Asthma Advocacy Program, Madison Metropolitan School District, and UW Health Pediatrics, who were awarded a Wisconsin Asthma Coalition mini grant in the amount of $9,995 for …
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Judith Smith, MD, PhD, Receives Graduate School Fall Competition Award
Congratulations to Judith Smith, MD, PhD, on her recent award of $75,460 from the UW Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education. This one-year award for her project entitled, “Immunogenetics of axial …
Marlowe Eldridge, MD, Receives Graduate School Fall Competition Award
Marlowe Eldridge, MD, was awarded $65,761 for his project entitled, “Cardiac contractile function and glucose metabolism in postmenopausal women during exercise: Effects of estrogen.” This one-year award from the UW Office of the Vice Chancellor …
Christian Capitini, MD, Receives Graduate School Fall Competition Award
Congratulations to Christian Capitini, MD, who was recently awarded a one-year grant from the UW Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education for his project entitled, “Enhancing the graft-versus-tumor effect against neuroblastoma.” …
Monica Gressett Awarded Research Scholarship
Congratulations to Monica Gressett, student researcher in the lab of Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, who was recently awarded the Ann Haney Senior Honors Research Scholarship from the UW School of Letter and Sciences. She is …
Thor Jeppson from PROKids Presents at National Dissemination and Implementation Conference
Thor Jeppson, research specialist for PROKids, recently presented at the 8th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health in Washington, DC. “Identifying barriers and solutions to research participation for chronically ill …
New Therapies for Inherited Retinal Disease LCA16?
A new grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Eye Institute Audacious Goals Initiative will allow Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, to identify new therapeutic pathways for Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), an inherited retinal degenerative disease …
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, Consulting On Dr. Safdar’s PCORI-funded Research On Healthcare-Associated Infections
Dr. Elizabeth Cox will consult on new research on healthcare-associated infections (HAI), funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Led by Dr. Nasia Safdar, Associate Chief of Staff for Research at the William S. Middleton VA …
Gern Lab Graduate Student Receives NIH Travel Award
Congratulations to Sarmila Basnet, graduate student in the lab of James Gern, MD, for receiving a travel award from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH-NIAID). She presented a poster …
Sondel Lab Graduate Student Receives Award
Zulmarie Perez-Horta, PhD student in the lab of Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, was a recent recipient of the First Place Award for Graduate Student Research for her research poster at the 2nd Annual Puerto Rico …