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Over the past few months, several Medical Microbiology & Immunology faculty and students have been awarded research grants and fellowships for their outstanding projects and work. Grants and fellowships are extremely competitive and we want to congratulate everyone on their successful applications! Please see the list below of awardees:
David Beebe, and longtime collaborator Anna Huttenlocher, a professor of medical microbiology and immunology and pediatrics at UW-Madison, are out to change that by studying inflammation on a fundamental level. They’ll use a recently awarded five-year, $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to examine the onset and resolution of inflammation, work that …
Jeniel Nett, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (infectious disease) at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, is one of 17 physician-scientists in the United States to be awarded a 2017 Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF).
Dr Laurie Ristow in the Welch laboratory has received notification of the award of her postdoctoral fellowship application entitled, Identification of Host factors Required for the Cytolytic Activity of Hemolysin from Uropathogenic Escherichia coli. Dr Ristow is employing the CRISPR-Cas9 system of mutagenesis to identify host cell genes that are involved in the cytotoxic activity of …
As part of its continuing effort to stimulate fundamental research into human infectious diseases, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund — a private foundation making investments in biomedical research and careers for more than 60 years — has invested $6 million in grants to top pathogenesis investigators in the United States. The 12 recipients of the 2017 …
Dr. Anna Huttenlocher has been selected as a recipient of the UW 2020 Award! The goal of the UW2020 initiative is to stimulate and support highly innovative and groundbreaking research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. This initiative seeks to fund research projects that have the potential to fundamentally transform a field of study as well …
The objective of these studies is to learn what signals are required for certain cells of the immune system, namely a type of T lymphocyte that has not yet been well studied called gamma-delta T cells, to control lymphomas. We know from experiments performed in test tubes that human gamma-delta T cells are able to …
Adam Schaenzer, a graduate student in Dr. Sauer’s lab has been awarded a PhRMA Foundation predoctoral fellowship titled “A Pharmacologic Approach to Characterize the Role of Stk1 in Beta-Lactam Resistance of Staphylococcus aureus.” The fellowship will start June 1, 2017 and runs for 18 months. Pharmacology/toxicology awards support career development activities of scientists embarking on research that …
Dr. Andy Mehle was recently awarded a NIH RO1 grant titled, “Mechanisms of influenza transmission bottlenecks: impact on viral evolution.” The grant’s Lead Principal Investigator is Dr. Tom Friedrich from the Department of Pathobiological Sciences. Avian in uenza viruses like H5N1 and H7N9 do not frequently infect humans, but when they do, they cause serious disease …
Congratulations to Dr. Jeniel Nett who has been awarded the Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award which recognizes research and teaching excellence in faculty who are relatively early in their careers. This is a great honor and it confirms the high esteem in which she is held by the Dean of the School of Medicine …