Congratulations to Pelin Cengiz, MD, who has been awarded a Scientist Investigator Travel Award in order to present her research at the 11th Hershey Conference on Developmental Brain Injury. Dr. Cengiz will present the abstract, …
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Dr. Megan Moreno Quoted in New York Times Article on Teenage Sexting
Department of Pediatrics Vice Chair of Digital Health Megan Moreno, MD, MSEd, MPH, was among experts quoted in a recent New York Times article encouraging parents to talk with teenagers early on about sexting, instead …
How Farm Exposure Impacts Children’s Respiratory Health
Renewed support from the National Institutes of Health will enable Department of Pediatrics faculty to continue collaborative research into how early farm exposure may reduce respiratory viral illnesses and the risk of allergies, diseases that …
Faculty Receive UW Fall Competition Awards
Congratulations to the following four Pediatric faculty members and their laboratories who were each recently awarded one-year Fall Competition grants from the UW Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education: Marlowe Eldridge, …
Mei Baker, MD, FACMG, Awarded Newborn Screening Grant from Cure SMA
Mei Baker, MD, FACMG, was recently awarded a one-year grant in the amount of $211,247, for her project entitled, “A State-wide Spinal Muscular Atrophy Newborn Screening Pilot in Wisconsin.” This funding, from Cure SMA (Spinal …
Meriter Foundation Awards Three Grants to Neonatology Researchers
Congratulations to Eileen Cowan, MD, Principal Investigator, and Adam Bauer, MD, Co-Investigator, on the funding of their project, “Point of Care Ultrasound Use in the NICU.” This one-year project in the amount of $63,236 supported …
James Muse Davis, MD, PhD, Awarded Career Development Grant from NIH
Congratulations to J. Muse Davis, MD, PhD, who was recently awarded a 5-year, K08 grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID), for his project entitled, “Fungal and …
Gern Laboratory Awarded NIH U19 Renewal Funding
Congratulations to James Gern, MD, and Co-Investigators, Christine Seroogy, MD, Anne Palmenberg, PhD, and Yury Bochkov, PhD, on the 5-year, $6.8 million renewal of U19 AI104317, funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute …
Sarah Webber, MD, and Natalie Guerrero, PhD, Awarded ICTR Pilot Award
Congratulations to Sarah Webber, MD and Natalie Guerrero, PhD, who were recently awarded a one-year grant through the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) Pilot Award Program. This …
Christian Capitini, MD, Receives Grant from the UW Carbone Cancer Center
Christian Capitini, MD, Principal Investigator, along with UW Co-Principal Investigator Krishanu Saha, PhD (Biomedical Engineering), were recently awarded a one-year $50,000 grant for their project, “Optimization of CD19 CAR NK cells for B cell leukemia,” …