October 3, 2017 By Jennifer Smith Today’s announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to researchers Rainer Weiss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kip Thorne and Barry Barish of the California Institute of Technology, bears University of Wisconsin System connections. The three researchers led an extensive international team, known as the LIGO […]
JangoBio, a biotech company developing a therapy to reduce the negative effects of aging, could be starting human trials as early as next year.
A new video aimed at recruiting people to come to Madison to work and live wowed the crowd at the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce’s annual dinner Wednesday night. The 56-second video is a 360-degree view of the city, from the lakes and from the air, showcasing Madison as a place of innovation, activity and […]
By Eric Hamilton | UW Madison As the floodwaters recede in Houston following Hurricane Harvey, millions of mosquitoes have emerged to blanket southeastern Texas, hampering recovery efforts and raising public health concerns about mosquito-borne diseases. To assist ongoing mosquito-control efforts, two University of Wisconsin–Madison students, Melissa Farquhar and Erin McGlynn, have flown to Texas to […]
by Brian Mattmiller | Morgridge Institute In Jan Huisken’s zebrafish imaging lab, it takes a lot of data to capture a tiny fish. Assembling a time-lapse video of the first 24 hours of development of a zebrafish — from a ball of cells to a fully-formed embryo with head, heart, spine and fins — has […]
By Silke Schmidt | UW Madison The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $20 million to a consortium of universities, including the University of Wisconsin–Madison, to support a new engineering research center that will develop transformative tools and technologies for the consistent, scalable and low-cost production of high-quality living therapeutic cells. Such cells could be […]
A University Research Park based biotech startup with ambitious goals is adding staff and expanding testing capabilities as it seeks early-stage investment. JangoBio is trying to develop regenerative therapy products which would diminish the effects of aging caused by imbalanced hormones. By regrowing certain tissues in the body, the company seeks to recreate the hormonal […]
Dr. Lynn Allen-Hoffmann, Founder and former CEO of Stratatech Corporation, now a Mallinckrodt company; current Senior Vice President of Regenerative Medicine at Mallinckrodt; and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at University of Wisconsin-Madison, will receive the Hector F. DeLuca Scientific Achievement Award, celebrating her exceptional success in developing regenerative medicine products that have the […]
The AURP Career Achievement Award recognizes an individual who has made research parks a central focus of their career, who has achieved success with a park over a substantial period of time and who has advanced understanding of university research parks. Greg Hyer, Associate Director of the University of Wisconsin Madison Research Park, takes home […]
PhylloTech, LLC (Madison, WI) announces that it has been awarded a $500,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to continue work on new technologies that could be utilized to curb plant diseases. “This project will allow us to expand our development of enzymatic products to control bacterial pathogens in agriculture,” stated Ryan W. […]
