July 11, 2016
UW-Madison scores high in world university rankings
For the third year in a row, the University of Wisconsin—Madison has been ranked 25th worldwide by the Center for World University Rankings....
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Madison chamber leader touts Wisconsin’s high-tech ‘Third Wave’
Rather than focus solely on established businesses, Madison Chamber president Zach Brandon has embraced startups and "scalable and salable" companies as the future....
July 11, 2016
Wisconsin got more venture capital deals in 2015 but amount invested fell
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....
July 7, 2016
Coordinating steps to a Cancer Moonshot
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....
July 6, 2016
New startups ‘graduate’ from UW business accelerator
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....
June 28, 2016
Exact Sciences CEO Conroy to join Bidens for White House cancer summit
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....
June 28, 2016
Gulbrandsen reflects on 16 years shepherding information at WARF
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....
June 23, 2016
Cellular Dynamics makes hire to prepare for stem cell therapies
Cellular Dynamics hires Derek Hei, former director of Waisman Biomanufacturing, to lead its cell manufacturing....
June 23, 2016
Cellular Dynamics & National Eye Institute announce new partnership
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. ...
June 23, 2016
MadREP shares results of 2016 Workplace Diversity & Inclusion Survey
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. ...
June 23, 2016
Kawaoka to receive Japan Academy award, presented by Emperor and Empress
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....
June 21, 2016
Aldevron & UW-Madison College of Engineering win Applied Research Challenge
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...