The Hartwell Foundation officially announced the recipients of the 2017 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Awards, which will provide support for three years. Twelve individuals representing ten institutions received recognition as Hartwell Investigators. This year, two …
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Dr. Kaufman awarded year-long pilot grant
Dixon Kaufman, MD, PhD, and co-investigator Igor Slukvin, MD, PhD, from the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, were awarded a one-year pilot grant from the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research for their …
Dr. Nilto De Oliveira promoted to Professor
Nilto De Oliveira, MD, has been promoted to Professor (CHS), effective July 1, 2018. Dr. De Oliveira performs all our aortic valve-sparing root replacement procedures and intervalvular fibrous body reconstructions for endocarditis. Since 2006, he …
2017 Successful Year for Transplant Patients at UW Health
Surgeon Dixon Kaufman, MD 2017 was a successful year for the UW Transplant Program, led by Dixon Kaufman, MD, PhD. Clinical highlights include: Pancreas transplant program, led by Jon Odorico, MD, was again the largest …
Dr. Redfield honored with Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award
Congratulations to Robert Redfield III, MD, who has been awarded a Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award by the Office of the Provost at UW-Madison. This honor recognizes research and teaching excellence in faculty across …
Meet the Lab: Dr. Dixon Kaufman’s Transplant Research Lab
Back row: Jen Post, Meg Gibson, Ricky Jodts, Lynn Haynes, W. John Haynes, Ewa Jankowska-Gan Front Row: Peiman Hematti, Dixon Kaufman, Will Burlingham The focus of the research in Dixon Kaufman‘s lab is to create …
Pancreas Transplantation for Type 2 Diabetes
By Jon S Odorico, MD Increasingly, patients with forms of diabetes other than Type I diabetes (T1D) are being offered pancreas transplantation and the results are excellent and nearly equivalent to the results in patients with …