A new tech toy — with a $500,000 price tag — is the latest marketing tool to convince people to make their next career move to Madison. Oculus Go virtual-reality headsets, loaded with a display of iconic Madison scenes, will be available to send to promising job candidates. Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce president Zach […]
Mike Partsch, chief venture officer for WARF, is calling for greater state investment in shared lab spaces to help emerging biotech startups. As a former founder and CEO of a startup in this space, called Cervel Neurotech, Partsch says competition has only grown more fierce in the decade since he guided the company through two […]
Twenty-five entries representing sectors as broad as social media, health technologies and innovations in products or services are competing in the finalist round of the 16th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. The contestants have survived two rounds of judging in the contest organized through the Wisconsin Technology Council and its sponsors and volunteers. “These […]
Of all the industries on the threshold of transformation, none is more politically contentious, tightly regulated, scientifically significant or economically important than health care. Hospitals around the globe will drive—and be shaped by—much of this disruption. Newsweek has spent the better part of nine decades covering every aspect of health care, and we are committed […]
A recent study from the UW Carbone Cancer Center highlights a new method for screening cancer drugs with no risk to the patient. Scientists at UW-Madison created a three-dimensional model using real tissues from a patient to grow blood vessels on a specialized structure. They used both normal and cancerous tissues, in order to replicate […]
Wisconsin’s tech sector gained more than 4,500 jobs last year, according to the latest industry analysis from CompTIA. The Cyberstates 2019 report also finds the sector’s overall economic output grew in 2018. About 215,000 technology workers in the state make up about 7.1 percent of the Wisconsin workforce, the report shows. And the tech sector’s […]
Three professors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are among the 2019 class of Simons Fellows in Mathematics. Gheorghe Craciun, Autumn Kent and Andreas Seeger are among the 48 distinguished scientists named to fellowships. Each year, the Simons Foundation selects as many as 50 fellows conducting research in math and the physical sciences, providing funding for […]
A decade ago, Kevin Conroy took the CEO job at Exact Sciences, a cancer diagnostic firm on the brink of death. Five years later, the FDA greenlit the company’s first product, Cologuard, which marked the first non-invasive, stool-based DNA screening test approved for detecting colorectal cancer. In the five years since then, Exact (NASDAQ: EXAS) says it has screened […]
A portable, shareable scientific microscope nicknamed Flamingo, created in 2018 by imaging pioneer Jan Huisken of the Morgridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will make its cross-country journey thanks to support announced today (March 19) by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). Created in 2015 by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, CZI’s mission is to […]
Exact Sciences Corp., the maker of the Cologuard take home colon cancer test and one of the largest public companies in Wisconsin, has appointed Kathleen Sebelius, the former governor of Kansas and Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to its board of directors, the Madison company announced Tuesday. “Secretary Sebelius understands […]
