In a routine established during his doctoral studies, Daniel Cook, MD, PhD, has attended the annual AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting in Chicago every spring. This April, that tradition will take on a new meaning when the American Society for Clinical Investigation honors Cook with a Young Physician-Scientist Award (YPSA). David Stoltz, MD, PhD, director for the […]
Earlier this week, physicians, scientists, and trainees paused to honor a legacy still very much in motion. On Dec. 9, colleagues across UI Health Care gathered to celebrate Michael J. Welsh, MD, in an event organized by the Internal Medicine Residency Program. The event commemorated his selection for the 2025 Lasker DeBakey Clinical Medical Research […]
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has awarded its prestigious 2025 Yergin-New International Prize for Biomedical Research to Michael J. Welsh, MD, professor in Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Occupational Medicine, recognizing his groundbreaking contributions to cystic fibrosis (CF) research. Welsh’s pioneering work uncovered the cellular mechanisms behind CF, notably identifying the absence of […]
Wenjie Yu, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Welsh Lab in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, earned a Catalyst Award from the American Lung Association (ALA) in the amount of $50,000 per year for two years for his project, Submucosal Gland Hypertrophy in a Porcine Model of PCD: Histological, Cellular, and […]
In recognition of its tradition of exemplary scholarly activity, the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine (CCOM) held its annual Celebration of Excellence in Research, Scholarship, Teaching, and Service on Monday, adding eight faculty with appointments in the Department of Internal Medicine across its Wall of Scholarship, naming Impact Scholars, and presenting […]
Wenjie Yu, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Welsh Lab in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, has won a prestigious Parker B. Francis (PBF) Fellowship in Pulmonary Research, sponsored by the Francis Family Foundation. Yu will use this $225,000 award to pursue research on his project, Mechanisms of submucosal gland hypertrophy in muco-obstructive lung […]
E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD, was named as one of the 120 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences last week. Abel is the William S. Adams Distinguished Professor of Medicine, chair, and executive medical director of the Department of Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Health, Los Angeles. […]
Michael Welsh, MD, professor of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, received the 2020 Association of American Physicians (AAP) George M. Kober Medal. Joseph Zabner, MD, Director of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, presented the honor to Welsh during the AAP, American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and American Physician Scientist Association […]
In recognition of scholarship that has had wide-ranging impact, the Carver College of Medicine created the Wall of Scholarship in the atrium of the Eckstein Medical Research Building. That wall was formally dedicated earlier this week by UI President Bruce Harreld, Provost and UI Interim Executive Vice President Sue Curry, and Brooks Jackson, dean of […]
Michael Welsh, MD, described the day in 1990 he went to then-Chair of Internal Medicine Dr. Frank Abboud to ask for a sabbatical. “He said, ‘OK, when are you gonna go?’ I said, ‘Next week.’” After Dr. Abboud absorbed that, he asked Dr. Welsh where he was going. “And I said, ‘Nowhere, I’m going into […]