Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, Awarded a UW2020 Grant

Elizabeth Cox, MD, MPH
Elizabeth Cox, MD, MPH

Congratulations to Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, who was awarded a 2-year UW2020 grant for her project entitled, “Building a Translational Research Pipeline to Personalize Diabetes Prevention and Treatment.” Support for this research was provided by the University of Wisconsin?Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education with funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. This WARF Discovery Initiative award, in conjunction with Co-Principal Investigators Dawn Davis, MD, PhD, (Medicine) and Michelle Kimple, PhD (Medicine), as well as Pediatric Co-Investigator Jennifer Laffin, PhD, FACMG, and numerous other collaborators, will establish the Diabetes Research Accelerator for Wisconsin (DRAW), a data registry and biobank of individuals with diabetes, as a next step toward delivering personalized diabetes care and facilitating interdisciplinary translational diabetes research at UW-Madison. More on the award can be found here: https://research.wisc.edu/funding/uw2020/round-4-projects/personalize-diabetes-prevention/