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

Doctors use genetic code to make groundbreaking diagnosis

Birth of a healthy infant follows preimplantation genetic diagnosis

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

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.

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.

Groundbreaking for the Children's Research Institute facility

Children's Research Institute incorporated.