At least 128 state companies raised more than $209 million of angel and venture capital in 2015, with the results indicating a generally improving picture for early-stage financing....
The Cancer Moonshot goal of making a decade’s worth of progress in cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care in five years is both audacious and achievable....
A second group of companies formed with assistance from the University of Wisconsin—Madison’s Discovery to Product (D2P) has “graduated” from a program designed to advance innovations based on research on campus....
Kevin Conroy, chairman and CEO of Exact Sciences Corp., will attend this week’s White House summit on the effects of cancer and how the nation can come together in an effort to battle the disease....
Carl Gulbrandsen will retire June 30 after 16 years as managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the independent, nonprofit foundation that aids scientific research and education at UW–Madison....
Cellular Dynamics hires Derek Hei, former director of Waisman Biomanufacturing, to lead its cell manufacturing....
Cellular Dynamics and the National Eye Institute's partnership is aimed at making stem cells and retinal cells for use in the development of a therapy for retinal degenerative disease. ...
The MadREP survey captures quantitative and qualitative data about workforce demographics, supplier diversity programs, and community engagement among companies in the eight-county Madison Region. ...
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko will honor FluGen's Yoshihiro Kawaoka with a scientific achievement award in the field of agriculture from the Japan Academy....
Aldevron and the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering are pleased to announce that their collaborative project on the development of decision support tools for biomanufacturing has been awarded first place in the 2016 Applied Research Challenge organized by the Production and Operations Management Society...
Mirus Bio celebrates 20 years of making cutting-edge products for delivering DNA and RNA into cells....
In early June, Strategic Foresight Initiative (SFI) staff conducted a research trip to Madison, Wisconsin, as part of The Future of American Technological Leadership, a new project with Qualcomm to investigate American innovation in the technology sector....