Sara Best, MD and Simone Vernez, MD wrote a paper entitled “Liquid gold: the value of urine in the textile industry” that was presented at the AUA history forum, and tied for first place for …
Research
Tudor Borza, MD receives $21,000 grant from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to perform pilot study on disposal of unused opioids following surgery
Tudor Borza, MD received a new grant in the amount of $21,000 from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to perform a pilot study on disposal of unused opioids following surgery.
Tudor Borza, MD awarded a $10,000 Wisconsin Urological Association Pilot Grant
Tudor Borza, MD has been awarded a $10,000 Wisconsin Urological Association Pilot Grant for his project, “Improving Opioid Stewardship Among Wisconsin Urologists”. The project has three aims – to develop a robust, reliable, and reproducible …
Kristina Penniston, PhD, selected by the American Urological Association Office of Research to serve on the Urology Research Conferences Advisory Board (URCAB)
We would like to congratulate Kristina Penniston, PhD, senior scientist in the Department of Urology, who recently accepted an invitation from the American Urological Association (AUA) Office of Research to serve on the Urology Research …
Dr. Sara Best Funded in Multi-Center Veteran Study
Sara L. Best, MD has received funding as the site Principal Investigator for a Veterans Affairs (VA) collaborative study: “A multi-modal, physician-centered intervention to improve guideline-concordant prostate cancer imaging”. Dr. Danil V. Makarov, MD, MHS …
Wisconsin Urologic Honors
Two residents, Natasza Posielski, MD and Matt Grimes, MD each received the Prize Paper Award at the 2018 annual Wisconsin Urological Society meeting in April. Dr. Posielski’s paper is titled “Do I need to see …
David F. Jarrard, MD and Bing Yang, PhD win 2017 WARF Innovation Award
Professor David F. Jarrard, MD and Researcher Bing Yang, PhD won the 2017 WARF Innovation Award for developing a molecular-based method to diagnose prostate cancer in a biopsy from non-tumor associated tissue. This could reduce …
Jason Abel, MD, is co-PI on NIH Cancer Institute Moonshot grant
Associate Professor E. Jason Abel, MD is a co-principal investigator on a three-year, $1.5M NIH National Cancer Institute Moonshot grant. The project, “Functional microscale organotypic assays to predict patient response to anti-angiogenesis therapies,” is a …
Brian Le, MD, awarded grant from Society of Academic Urologists
Brian V. Le, MD, has been awarded a $7,500 grant from the Society of Academic Urologists. His project, “Improving urological surgery training with a computer vision video analysis tool,” will assess whether computers can learn …