Pelin Cengiz, MD, professor, Division of Critical Care, has been awarded a one-year grant from the UW Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education (OVCRGE) for $62,640. The project is titled “Interneurons …
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Pelin Cengiz awarded grant for non-invasive techniques to characterize eye function of neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)
Principal Investigator Pelin Cengiz, MD, professor, Division of Critical Care, was awarded a grant for $50,000 from the UnityPoint Health — Meriter Foundation to fund the project “Healthy Little Eyes.” Cengiz joins co-investigators Bikash Pattnaik, …
Laura Chen awarded grant to improve implementation of clinical practice guidelines for hyperbilirubinemia treatment
Laura Chen, MD, assistant professor, Division of Hospital Medicine, received a $4,000 grant from Cars Curing Kids to work with other pediatric hospitalist physicians at the American Family Children’s Hospital as part of the Academy …
Bernadette Gillick part of Waisman Center team awarded NIH grant to improve brain imaging in young children
A team of investigators at the Waisman Center was recently awarded a four-year, $2.5 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health to both …
Becky Richards awarded ASH Fellow Scholar Award and NIH K08 grant for research in new CAR T cell therapy
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) has awarded Rebecca “Becky” Richards, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Bone Marrow Transplant, an ASH Fellow Scholar Award of $100,000 for the period October 1, …
Dinushan Kaluarachchi awarded grant to improve surfactant treatment for preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome
Dinushan Kaluarachchi, MBBS, associate professor, Division of Neonatology and Newborn Nursery, has been awarded a $6,273 grant from the Cars Curing Kids Foundation for his research project, “Less invasive surfactant administration (LISA) for preterm infants …
Cathy Lee-Miller awarded grant for pilot study of modified therapy for NCI standard risk B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
Cathy Lee-Miller, MD, assistant professor and fellowship director, Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Bone Marrow Transplant, has been awarded a grant from the Cars Curing Kids Foundation for $30,458. The grant started in fall 2022 …
Study points to urban air pollution as asthma trigger
In a recently published study, researchers Daniel Jackson, MD, professor, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, and Matthew C. Altman, MD, University of Washington, two among the group of authors, showed that children with asthma …
Krisjon Olson appointed BIRCWH Scholar
Krisjon Olson, PhD, was recently appointed to the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) Scholars Program. This program, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) …
Seminars in Pediatrics delivers a day of ‘growth and development’
The Department of Pediatrics annual Seminars in Pediatrics took place on September 9 with both an in-person option for attendees who could be present at the UW–Madison Memorial Union and an asynchronous remote option. The …