Congratulations to Dr. Heidi Wendell Brown, MD MAS FACOG, Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Associate Division Director, Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery, for her recent R01 award ‘Tailoring Online Continence Promotion for Women’! More than …
Awards and Grants
Dr. William Ricke awarded a $2M R01 grant from NIDDk titled “Estrogen Pathways in the Development of Prostatic Fibrosis and Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction”
Dr. William Ricke has been awarded a R01 grant from NIDDK titled “Estrogen Pathways in the Development of Prostatic Fibrosis and Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction”. The $2 million grant, funded from 4/1/2021-3/31/2025, aims to establish …
Nicholas Girardi awarded UW-Madison College of Letters and Science Trewartha Senior Thesis Research Grant
Nicholas (Nick) Girardi, Undergraduate Researcher and 2019 Summer Program in Undergraduate Urologic Research Intern, is the recipient of a UW-Madison College of Letters and Science Trewartha Senior Thesis Research Grant. Nick continued his summer research …
Livianna Myklebust awarded Collaborating for the Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research in Benign Urology (CAIRIBU) Research Training and Development Award
Livianna Myklebust, undergraduate research scholar in the Ricke Lab/UW-Madison U54 O’Brien Center, was awarded a Collaborating for the Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research in Benign Urology (CAIRIBU) Research Training and Development Award to travel to the …
Five O’Brien Center members are awarded 2019 SBUR Travel Awards
Dr. Teresa Liu, K12 Scholar/Assistant Scientist in the Ricke lab, was awarded a 2019 SBUR Travel Award for her abstract entitled “Estrogen Mediated Racial Disparity in Men with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia” Dr. Petra Popovics, K12 …
Anne Turco (Vezina Lab) is awarded the 2019 UW-Madison Zaman-Saroya Award
Anne Turco, a PhD candidate in Dr. Chad Vezina’s laboratory, has been awarded the 2019 UW-Madison Zaman-Saroya Award for excellence in research and scholarship. Congratulations, Anne!
Dr. Chad Vezina Receives a 2019 UW-Madison Mid-Career Vilas Award
Congratulations to Dr. Chad Vezina, O’Brien Center Co-Director, for receiving a 2019 UW-Madison Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award. The Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award recognizes research and teaching excellence in faculty who are at mid-career.
Hannah Ruetten (Vezina Lab) is Awarded a Four Year NRSA F30 Grant
Hannah Ruetten, a PhD/DVM candidate in Dr. Chad Vezina’s laboratory, has been awarded a four year National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellowship (F30). Way to go, Hannah!
Dr. William Ricke receives the 2019 Society of Toxicology’s Kenneth P. DuBois Award
We would like to congratulation Dr. William Ricke, who received the 2019 Society of Toxicology’s Kenneth P. DuBois Award. The Kenneth P. DuBois Award honors an outstanding Midwest toxicologist with a career involving several years (15+) …
Diya Binoy Joseph has been selected as the 2018 recipient of the UW-Madison Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program’s Exceptional Thesis Award
The CMB committee that reviewed the nominated theses provided the following thoughts about Diya and her research. “During the course of her studies on prostate development and regeneration in Dr. Chad Vezina’s lab, she discovered …