Associate Professor Daifeng Wang is co-investigator on a newly awarded $9M grant to study Down Syndrome. Sigan Hartley (PI) and the team will conduct an in-depth study of factors driving the risk and severity of co-occurring conditions in children, adolescents, and young adults with Down Syndrome.
This project is one of a number of others from the US and Latin America that are included in a large NIH research initiative called the INCLUDE Project (INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE).
The UW-Madison team includes Sigan Hartley (PI), Luis Columna (Dept of Kinesiology), David Plante (Dept of Psychiatry), Daifeng Wang (Dept of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics), Qiang Chang (Medical Genetics and Dept of Neurology), Maria Stanley (Dept of Pediatrics), and Michele Polfuss (UW School of Nursing), along with a number of graduate and undergraduate student from the School of Human Ecology.