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Milestones for Children's Research Institute

    Robert Goldstein, MD, PhD, featured at CRI annual conference. See the video.
     

Congenital Inner Ear Malformations Studied with $1.6 M Grant

   
     
 

 

Grant supports study to reduce sickle cell disease pain
     

Genetic associations in cystic fibrosis studied

   
     
   

Day care dilemma: When 'sick' children unnecessarily are sent home

     

Study Aims at Identifying Genetic Causes for Birth Defects

   
     
   

Investigators look at deadly heart and lung disorder in newborns

     

Many sickle cell disease patients need emergency care for pain, study featured in JAMA

   
     
 

 

Sickle cell disease pain studied

Investigators testify to add screening for SCID to state panels

Doctors use genetic code to make groundbreaking diagnosis

Birth of a healthy infant follows preimplantation genetic diagnosis

 

 

   

CRI investigator featured in JAMA: Study highlights Wisconsin as first to test newborns for T cell deficiency
The testing of DNA from a statewide blood screening program for newborns in Wisconsin was able to identify infants with T-cell lymphopenia, a blood disorder that affects the child's immune system, according to a study in the Dec. 9 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

     
   

New study finds barriers to pain treatment in children with sickle cell disease
Researchers find variation in hydroxyurea use for pain and other sickle cell disease complications.

     
Children's Research Institute, UW-Milwaukee and the Medical College receive $8.5 million for children's environmental health research.    
     

Children's Research Institute symposium features Alan R. Fleischman, MD, medical director of the March of Dimes Foundation
     

Governor Doyle visits the campus and learns about research at Children's Research Institute.

     
 

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin named no. 3 in the nation by Parents magazine.

 

 

National Institutes of Health Department of Pediatrics rank - 18

First use of phamacogenetic testing in epilepsy patients in the Neuroscience Center.

 

Investigators from institutions across the nation visit Children's Research Institute to evaluate how the organization has grown so quickly.  

     

Investigators discover a new way to help blood clot by having the missing clotting factor packaged in the patient's own platelets.

The MACC Fund (Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer, Inc.) pledges $5 million over six years to support the outpatient cancer clinic's translational research.

 

 

 

Researchers make significant discoveries in juvenile diabetes diagnosis at the Max McGee National Research Center for Juvenile Diabetes.

     

Wisconsin Sickle Cell Center named a National Institutes of Health-funded Basic and Translational Research Program, one of only 11 sites nationwide.

   
     
   

Alan M. Krensky, MD, deputy director, Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives presents "National Institutes of Health and the Future of Pediatric Science" at the Children's Research Institute symposium.

     

Wisconsin becomes first state in the nation to screen all newborns for severe combined immunodeficiency.

   

 

 

National Institutes of Health Department of Pediatrics rank - 22

 

First Food and Drug Administration grant awarded on the campus for a three-year, $1 million Orphan Products Development grant to study infantile hemangiomas.

 

 

 

The Pediatric Nursing Consortium is launched, a three-year agreement between Children's Research Institute, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Marquette University-College of Nursing.

 

 

 

 

 

The National Institutes of Health awards $4.6 million over five years to establish a Research Center of Excellence in Pediatric Nephrology.

 

 

 

An alliance between Affymetrix and Children's Research Institute helps researchers screen genetic information in up to 25,000 patients in five years.

 

 

 

 

A $1.2 million grant is awarded to study protection of the child's heart from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

 

 

 

 

 

Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, speaks at a symposium to celebrate the recent opening of Children's Research Institute's biomedical and translational research facility.

 

 

 

Researchers announce a first of its kind newborn screening study aimed at detecting a rare but often undiagnosed immune system disease that is fatal without treatment and believed by some doctors to be responsible for a number of unexplained infant deaths.

     

The Primary Immunodeficiency program is designated a Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic Center for Primary Immunodeficiencies, one of only 32 of its kind in the world.

     

The facility for Children's Research Institute opens, providing dedicated space to pediatric research.

 

 

National Institutes of Health Department of Pediatrics rank - 30

Children's Research Institute leaders co-author two-volume reference on translational research, "Scientific Foundations of Clinical Practice" issued by Pediatric Clinics of North America.
     
    Robert Montgomery, MD, is named principal investigator of a five-year, $9.7 million National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Program Project Grant for genetics studies to improve the understanding of von Willebrand disease.

 

 

 

National Institutes of Health Department of Pediatrics rank - 27

Groundbreaking for the Children's Research Institute facility

 

 

National Institutes of Health Department of Pedatrics rank - 34

 

 

National Institutes of Health Department of Pediatrics rank - 35

Children's Research Institute incorporated.

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