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OHNS Faculty Member Awarded Prestigious NIH Career Development Award

Posted on May 5, 2025

Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Assistant Professor Ruth Davis, MD, was recently awarded a 5-year, $711,000 career development award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. NIH career development awards provide …

Posted in News, ResearchTagged awards, otolaryngology, research

Brown Lab Awarded Grant to Study Potential New Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes

Posted on April 25, 2025

The lab of Division of Transplantation Assistant Professor Matthew E. Brown, PhD, is hyper-focused on creating hypoimmune stem cells – cells that can evade recognition and destruction by the human immune system. Why? Because stem …

Posted in News, ResearchTagged awards, research, transplant

Dr. Sean Ronnekleiv-Kelly Receives Grant to Study the Link between Three Rare Biliary Cancers

Posted on April 16, 2025

Division of Surgical Oncology Associate Professor Sean Ronnekleiv-Kelly, MD, has devoted much of his scientific career to the study of fibrolamellar cancer, a rare but deadly form of liver cancer that affects young adults. So …

Posted in News, ResearchTagged awards, cancer, liver, research

Dr. Carrie Thiessen Awarded Prestigious NIH Career Development Award

Posted on April 4, 2025

Division of Transplantation Assistant Professor Carrie Thiessen, MD, PhD, was recently awarded a 5-year, $956,000 career development award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. NIH career development awards provide early-stage …

Posted in News, ResearchTagged awards, research, transplant

Zafar Awarded Grant to Explore Social Determinants of Health in GI Cancer Surgery Outcomes

Posted on April 3, 2025

Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers – such as pancreatic, colorectal, and liver cancer – often require surgical treatment. Because these procedures are complex, complications can happen. “Cancer surgery complications are associated with a variety of factors, including …

Posted in News, ResearchTagged cancer, research, surgical oncology

Cho Lab Receives Funding from the Draper Technology Innovation Fund

Posted on March 28, 2025

Division of Plastic Surgery Assistant Professor Daniel Cho, MD, PhD, specializes in the treatment of infants and children with birth defects that affect the head and skull. One such defect, craniosynostosis, is a serious condition …

Posted in News, Research, ResidentsTagged awards, plastic, research, resident

Surgery and Engineering Researchers Team Up to Enhance Wound Healing

Posted on March 17, 2025

Chronic wounds – wounds that haven’t started to heal after several weeks of treatment – affect over 6.5 million people in the U.S., are a threat to patients’ health and quality of life, and have …

Posted in News, ResearchTagged acute care and regional general surgery, research, wound

Dr. Anna Beck Receives 2024 Badger Challenge Award

Posted on March 11, 2025

Certain types of benign breast lesions are associated with a high risk of future breast cancer development, but current clinical methods to estimate the level of an individual patient’s risk are inaccurate. With a new …

Posted in News, ResearchTagged breast, cancer, research, surgical oncology

Harris Lab Receives Research Funding from Two Campus-based Programs

Posted on February 17, 2025

The Wisconsin Surgical Laboratory in Metabolism (WiSLiM), run by Dave Harris, MD, an Assistant Professor in the Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery, conducts research on how bariatric surgery affects metabolism and aging, with the goal …

Posted in News, ResearchTagged bariatric, minimally invasive surgery, research

Vascular Surgery Resident Awarded ACS Research Scholarship

Posted on February 5, 2025

Kate Telma, MD, a PGY-2 vascular surgery resident, has been selected by the American College of Surgeons to receive a Resident Research Scholarship for the 2025-2027 award cycle. This two-year, $60,000 scholarship is supported by …

Posted in News, Research, ResidentsTagged research, resident, vascular
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