April 23 - MCW and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin contributed to a University of Michigan-led study that found that children living in areas where there was wide-ranging and active support for improving outcomes for their chronic asthma were hospitalized less and made fewer visits to the emergency room. American Journal of Public Health
Mar 21 - The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a two-year, $476,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study immune response to certain herpesviruses.
Feb. 27 - Dr. Kartikeya Makker (Pediatrics – Neonatology) participated in a Montefiore Medical Center-led study reported in the Journal of Asthma that found that even small amounts of excess weight can adversely affect lung function in Hispanic and African-American children. newswise
Nov., 08 - Stephen Gauld, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology) and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has been named the 2012 James Klinenberg Scholar by the Arthritis National Research Foundation
Michael Chusid, MD, associate chair of pediatrics and section chief of infectious diseases, explains that the current vaccine for pertussis only provides protection for five to six years. WISN News
Julia Lechuga, PhD, assistant professor in psychiatry and behavioral medicine in the Medical College’s Center for AIDS Intervention Research, will investigate the decision-making processes between Latina girls and their mothers when it comes to obtaining the HPV vaccine. Hispanically Speaking News
Stephen Gauld, PhD, MCW assistant professor of pediatrics in allergy and immunology, and microbiology and molecular genetics, will study the factors involved in regulating the production of autoantibodies, which target an individual’s own tissues and are linked to autoimmune disorders like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. Health News Digest
Sept. 24 - The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) received a two-year award for more than $400,000 from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study how the bacterium which causes tuberculosis (TB) survives inside the human body in a latent state which is less susceptible to antibiotics
Sept. 10 - A team of researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Research Institute defined a new treatment for a potentially fatal lung disease in patients with a primary immunodeficiency known as common variable immunodeficiency. The findings are published in the Journal of Clinical Immunology.
The 99th annual commencement took place on May 18 at the Milwaukee Theatre, at which the Medical College of Wisconsin and its Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences awarded 202 MD, 38 PhD, 27 MS, 4 MA, and 18 Master of Public Health degrees, as well as bestowed numerous honors.
Mitchell Grayson, MD, associate professor of allergy and immunology, discusses concerns about health problems caused by breathing smoke from wildfires raging across parts of the United States. MSNBC
July 02 - The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) received a two-year, $420,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to investigate a promising biological avenue for treating nerves affected by botulism.