The Department of Pediatrics Research and Development Committee recently awarded grants to six faculty members for the following projects: Awni Al-Subu, MD – UW Pediatric Critical Care Point-of-Care Ultrasound Program Pelin Cengiz, MD – Epigenetic …
Seroogy Research Group News
Undergraduate Awarded Welton Summer Sophomore Honors Apprenticeship for Research in Seroogy Lab
Congratulations to undergraduate student Jiaying Lai who was awarded a Welton Summer Sophomore Honors Apprenticeship for the project, “Utilization of a novel knock-out mouse to test the intrinsic requirement for Gene Related to Anergy in …
Dr. Christine Seroogy Receives Funding from Carbone Cancer Center
Congratulations to Christine Seroogy, MD, on funding of $40,000 from the UW Paul P. Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC) and the Tumor Microenvironment Program. Her project, “The Role of the Anergy-related E3 ubiquitin ligase, GRAIL, in …
Improving Newborn Screening in Wisconsin’s Amish
On April 30, 2014, approximately 150 Amish and Mennonite family members—along with community practitioners and state and county health personnel—gathered at the Scenic Bluffs Community Health Center in Norwalk, WI, for a second community meeting …
Dr. Robert Lemanske and His Co-Investigators Receive Competitive Renewal on COAST IV
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Lemanske and his Co-Investigators, Drs. James Gern, Daniel Jackson, Judith Smith, Christine Seroogy, Ron Gangnon, Yury Bochkov and Carole Ober, on the competitive renewal of their Program Project Grant (PPG), “Rhinovirus …
Eight SMPH Peds Faculty Win the Brainiac Bowl Fundraiser for the Aldo Leopold Nature Center
Congratulations to the “SuperFriends of AFCH” team (Drs. Conway, Green, Redpath, Roach, Seroogy, Sklansky, Syverson and Zimmerman), who took first place in the Aldo Leopold Nature Center’s (ALNC) first annual Brainiac Bowl on April 19. …
Collaborative Project Awarded NIH-NIAID Funding
Drs. James Gern with Co-Investigator Dr. Christine Seroogy were recently awarded a U19 Program Project Grant by the National Institutes of Health – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH-NIAID) to test the hypothesis …
Caring for the Amish Children of Wisconsin
In 1989, in a cornfield in southeastern Pennsylvania, Holmes Morton, MD, built a timber-frame clinic to care for the area’s Old Order Amish and Mennonite children, many of whom had poorly understood, complex medical problems …
Christine Seroogy, MD, Receives Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center Award
Christine Seroogy, MD, recently received an award of $20,000 from the Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (UMASH) for her project, “Exploratory Immunologic Differences in Cord Blood from Infants Born into Farming Environments Compared …
Christine Seroogy, MD, Awarded UW-ICTR Funding
Christine Seroogy, MD, was recently awarded $50,000 from the University of Wisconsin-Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (UW-ICTR), funded by the National Institutes of Health. Her project, “T Regulatory Cells and Childhood Asthma,” hypothesizes that …