A new national consortium led by James Gern, MD, will work to better understand how genetic and environmental factors interact to cause specific types of childhood asthma. Supported by a new $15 million grant from …
David McCulley, MD, Wins Sutherland Award
Congratulations to David McCulley, MD, for winning the James Sutherland Junior Faculty Award at the 2016 Midwest Society for Pediatric Research Scientific Meeting, held September 22-23, 2016 in Chicago. The Sutherland Award recognizes the best …
Paul Sondel, MD, and Team Win UW2020 WARF Discovery Initiative Award
Congratulations to Paul Sondel, MD, Principal Investigator, and Co-Principal Investigators, Mario Otto, MD, PhD, Jamey Weichert, PhD, Zachary Morris, MD, PhD, and Bryan Bednarz, PhD, for receiving a UW2020 WARF Discovery Initiative grant for their …
Improving Care for Inherited Cholesterol Disorders
A Genetic Disorder Requiring Early Diagnosis Thanks to funding support from a Wisconsin Partnership Program Opportunity Grant, Dr. Peterson will lead the Wisconsin Pediatric Lipid Consortium, a partnership between UW Health, Dean Health Systems, Gundersen …
James Gern, MD, Leads $15 Million Grant to Study How Environmental Exposures Affect Childhood Asthma
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health a two-year, $15 million grant to establish and oversee the Children’s Respiratory Research and Environment Workgroup (CREW) …
Shedding Light on Rare Kidney Diseases
The Division of Nephrology’s Sharon Bartosh, MD, along with her colleagues, is part of a national, multi-site, National Institutes of Health-sponsored trial that aims to understand more fully and improve treatment for a set of …
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, Releases PRISM Toolkit to Identify Type 1 Diabetes Self-Management Barriers
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, director of the Program of Research on Outcomes for Kids (PROKids), has released a toolkit to support identification of type 1 diabetes self-management barriers for children and adolescents. The toolkit, Problem …
Collaborative Funded to Improve Screening for Intimate Partner Violence
Dr. Elizabeth Cox, associate professor of pediatrics at UW-Madison, in collaboration with Laurie Thompsen, MSW (West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence) and Dr. Danielle Davidov (West Virginia University), received a Tier 1 Eugene Washington Engagement …
Trish Barribeau Awarded Academic Staff Development Grant
Congratulations to Trish Barribeau, MA, Administrative Program and Grant Specialist in Administration – Fiscal, who was recently awarded an Academic Staff Professional Development Grant from UW-Madison in the amount of $1,289 to attend the National …
Anna Huttenlocher, MD Receives R35 Award from NIH
Anna Huttenlocher, MD was recently awarded a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (R35) from National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH-NIGMS) worth over $2.9 million for 5 years, for her research entitled “Cell …