SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec 6, 2018–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced the launch of its new high-density genotyping array, the Infinium™ Global Diversity Array. This new array was developed for and inspired by the Research Program. The All of Us Research Program is a historic effort to gather data from one million or more people living in […]
Green, 53, is CEO and co-founder of Invenra, a Madison company working on drugs to fight cancer, a company so promising it has forged collaborations with two successful drug companies even though it doesn’t have a single drug in human trials yet. One of the agreements could eventually bring Invenra $1.4 billion — if all […]
Jignesh Patel, a University of Wisconsin-Madison computer scientist, wants to make understanding data like turning on lights in a house. You shouldn’t need an electrical engineer on hand for a bulb to illuminate after flipping a switch. Nor should the manager of a business need a coder on hand to get answers to simple data-oriented […]
The founders of EatStreet, a national food ordering and delivery company, were honored Nov. 14 with the UW–Madison 2018 Entrepreneurial Achievement Award. EatStreet is rooted in Madison, where in 2010 three UW–Madison undergraduates grew frustrated with a clunky restaurant takeout ordering process. In response, Matt Howard, Eric Martell and Alex Wyler “cooked up” an improved, online ordering […]
The National Science Foundation on Nov. 20 released its 2017 Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey data, showing that UW–Madison placed 6th in its rankings. In last year’s HERD survey report, capturing 2016 data, UW–Madison also ranked 6th. Data on UW–Madison’s 2017 expenditures show the university remains a research powerhouse with more than $1.19 billion […]
Telling the story of how healthcare quality can help build and retain a strong workforce while better connecting young tech-based businesses with the state’s leading healthcare providers are among the missions of the Wisconsin Healthcare Business Forum. The creation of the Healthcare Business Forum was announced Tuesday by Eric Borgerding, president and chief executive officer […]
In 1998, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers made waves in the worlds of biology and medicine, revealing they had five examples of human embryonic stem cells — biological building blocks at the foundation of cellular development — successfully isolated and growing on laboratory dishes. Visit the Madison-based stem cell bank WiCell today, and you’ll find a library of […]
A pair of Australian sister companies that help put the lid on the use of electronic devices won the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce’s Most Innovative Company award. LocknCharge and TechDen have their North American headquarters in Madison, at 4510 Helgesen Drive, with 27 employees. LocknCharge was founded in Australia in 1998 and opened Madison […]
FluGen Inc., a Madison-based firm (And URP tenant) developing a universal flu vaccine, raised $5.58 million in funding through 36 investors, according to the filing. FluGen, which already has investments from Madison’s Venture Investors, the state’s largest venture capital fund, recently shared data from its first test on humans at the annual ID Week conference in San Francisco. […]
Institutes of Health has several such opportunities. Below are some NIH opportunities you can consider for additional and alternative funding: I-Corps: The NIH continues to fund the I-Corps program under FOA PA-19-029.This provides up to $55,000 in funding that includes an 8-week hands on training program to help commercialize NIH funded technologies.The program is specifically designed to build […]
