Mei Baker, MD, FACMG, was recently awarded a one-year grant in the amount of $211,247, for her project entitled, “A State-wide Spinal Muscular Atrophy Newborn Screening Pilot in Wisconsin.” This funding, from Cure SMA (Spinal …
SMAHRT Research Staff Receive UW Madison Holtz Center Travel Grant
Congratulations to SMAHRT research staff Aubrey Gower and Marina Jenkins, who have received a grant from the Robert E. and Jean F. Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies to attend the 2018 annual meeting …
Dr. Megan Moreno Named Associate Editor of JAMA Pediatrics
Congratulations to Megan Moreno, MD, MSEd, MPH, who has been named an Associate Editor of JAMA Pediatrics. Dr. Moreno began her position with the February 2018 issue of the journal.
Postdoctoral Fellow Pawan Shahi, PhD, Receives UW-Madison Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center Award
Pawan Shahi, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, received a 2018 UW-Madison Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center post-doctoral award. The award provides one year of salary support for Dr. …
Student in Pattnaik Laboratory Wins Science Awards
Anaka Srinivas, a sophomore at Middleton High School who is mentored by Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, received three awards at the Capital Science & Engineering Fair held on Feb 17, 2018 in Madison. She presented her …
Social Media and Adolescent Health
The Department of Pediatrics is happy to welcome Megan Moreno, MD, MSEd, MPH, and her research team back to Madison. After five years in Seattle at the University of Washington Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Moreno …
Dr. Dipesh Navsaria Receives Wisconsin Academy Fellows Award
The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters today announced Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD, as one of fourteen recipients of the 2018 Academy Fellows Award, making him the first pediatrician to be named a …
Dr. Sharon Bartosh Named Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Transplantation
Congratulations to Sharon Bartosh, MD, a professor (CHS) and chief of the Division of Nephrology, for being named an editor-in-chief of the journal Pediatric Transplantation. Dr. Bartosh, along with co-editor-in-chief Burkhard Tönshoff, MD, PhD, a …
Dr Marlowe Eldridge: Mentoring Award-Winning Student Researchers
Every semester for 12 years, Marlowe Eldridge, MD, professor and chief of the Division of Pediatric Critical Care, has welcomed four to five undergraduate student researchers into his integrative cardiopulmonary physiology and pathophysiology lab. Students …
Inga Hofmann, MD, and Emery Bresnick, PhD, Awarded EvansMDS Foundation Grant
Congratulations to Inga Hofmann, MD, Principal Investigator, and Emery Bresnick, Co-Principal Investigator, for their one-year, $200,000 grant from the Edward P. Evans Foundation, for the project, “Prognostic Markers and Therapeutic Targets in GATA2-Related Myelodysplastic Syndromes.” …