The National Science Foundation has released its 2019 fiscal year Higher Education Research and Development Survey, or HERD, data, showing that the University of Wisconsin–Madison ranked 8th place in the national research rankings for public and private universities. UW–Madison also ranked 8th in the last...
As we approach a year of caring for COVID-19 patients at UW Health amid an ongoing flurry of vaccine news, leaders at UW Health are reflecting on how this pandemic has permanently changed many aspects of healthcare. COVID-19 has changed the way we provide care. In...
As coworking becomes more popular among freelancers and small business professionals, the biotechnology industry is also seeing new opportunities to leverage the model....
Kevin Eliceiri, Morgridge Institute investigator and professor of biomedical engineering and medical physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the lead investigator on a $1.2 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) in support of the imaging expertise network known as BioImaging North America...
Join us as Phyllis Arthur, Vice President for Infectious Diseases and Diagnostics Policy at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) talks to us about vaccine testing and safety for the general population, distribution, vaccine facts and fiction, and what each of us can do to ensure...
The Innovation-to-Market course is intended as an entry point for innovators, seekers of a creative solutions, designers of novel approaches to social problems or makers of impactful products at the University of Wisconsin–Madison....
Gentueri, which had four employees a year ago and mostly produced swabs for sexual assault kits, in March started making nasal swabs for COVID-19 testing. The company, founded in 2012, has more than 35 workers today and in September moved from southeast Madison to a...
The $250,000 in funding for the Center will come from the city’s Small Business and Equity Recovery Program, which was introduced in October to address “historic and current inequities in funding and support for small businesses owned by people of color”....
The federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) reopened Monday with businesses and nonprofits serviced by small and minority-owned lenders getting the first chance to apply for loans, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), which administers the program....
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health are breaking new ground to make cancer cells more susceptible to attack by the body’s own immune system....
Madison-based Exact Sciences Corp. on Tuesday announced that it has completed its acquisition of cancer-screening firm Thrive Earlier Detection Corp. that was one of two deals announced Oct. 27....
The 2021 King Holiday Observance set for Jan. 18 will feature Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own,” a book with “elements of biography, criticism and memoir” regarding the late writer and activist, according...