Pattnaik Research Group News

Congratulations to Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, for his award of $39,000 from the Meriter Foundation for his project, “Oxytocinergic signaling in the eye: its contribution to Retinopathy of Prematurity.” Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) that occurs in …

Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, was recently received a Mirus Research Award in the amount of $2,000 for his project, “Inwardly rectifying potassium channel dysfunction in retina.” The grant is for the use of Mirus Bio’s transfection …

Congratulations to Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, for his award of $17,000 from the Meriter Foundation for “The Role of Birth-Related Hormones in Retinopathy of Prematurity.” The overall goal of this project is to study how birth …

Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, was just awarded a grant of $47,856 from the Meriter Foundation for his 1-year project, “The Role of Birth-Related Hormones in Retinopathy of Prematurity.” As advances in neonatal care have improved survival …

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 …

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 …

Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, was recently awarded $20,000 from the University of Wisconsin Medical School Research Committee for his one-year project, “Lipotoxicity through Inwardly Rectifying Potassium Channels (Kir) as a Mechanism of Eye Disease”. This project …

Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, was recently awarded $150,000 over 3 years from the UW Eye Research Institute’s Rebecca Meyer Brown/Retina Research Foundation Professorship for his project, “Mechanisms Underlying Kir7.1 Mutation Causing Snowflake Vitreoretinal Degeneration.” This study …