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, MD, in the amount of $70,613, for the project, “Skeletal muscle dysfunction in adult survivors of preterm birth.”
  • J. Carter Ralphe, MD, in the amount of $73,460, for the project, “Human Engineered Cardiac Tissue Modeling of Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.”
  • Judith Smith, MD, PhD, in the amount of $81,736, for the project, “Sabotage of host defense mechanisms by Brucella.”
  • Ei Terasawa-Grilley, PhD, in the amount of $43,994, for the project, “Role of neuroestradiol in the preovulatory GnRH surge.”