June 17, 2015
Illumina completes expansion in Madison
Illumina, Inc. has increased its ability to mass-produce specialty reagents and kits for life science research now that expansion of its Madison operations has been completed....
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June 12, 2015
Illumina expands its Madison production facility
Illumina, a San Diego-based company that moved into the Madison market in 2012, unveiled Thursday an $8 million, 13,000-square-foot addition to its University Research Park facility on the West Side. The new space, which includes a fermentation lab with tanks ranging in size from 20 liters...
June 8, 2015
Isomark makes its mark in health care
A new breath-based test that can detect infection within two hours of its onset is well on its way to commercialization and public launch, thanks to continued innovation at Madison-based Isomark LLC....
June 8, 2015
Madworks Accelerator’s Summer 2015 class begins
Madworks Coworking’s accelerator program on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, recently launched its summer 2015 session with seven startups....
June 5, 2015
BluDiagnostics wins Governor’s Biz Plan Contest
On Wednesday, Madison-based BluDiagnostics was named the Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Competition’s overall winner and top life sciences company, beating 12 other finalists....
May 27, 2015
La Crosse middle school student wins annual ‘Wisconsin YES!’ youth biz plan contest
Elizabeth Hlavacka, an 8th grader at Aquinas Middle School in La Crosse, is the grand prize winner in Wisconsin YES!, a statewide youth business plan contest for students in middle and high school....
May 26, 2015
Governor’s Biz Plan Contest finalists to present at Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference
Finalists representing diverse tech-based sectors in Wisconsin’s startup economy will present live to judges in the Governor’s Business Plan Contest during the 13th annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference in Madison....
May 21, 2015
URP spurs nearly 4,000 high-paying jobs
Currently, more than 3,800 people are employed by the 126 businesses and organizations in the University Research Park....
May 14, 2015
Hackers push their creative limits at hackathon organized by CS students
The University of Wisconsin-Madison joined the growing hackathon trend this past April with its first large-scale hackathon event--dubbed MadHacks--organized and run by students in the Department of Computer Sciences and hosted by University Research Park....
May 14, 2015
Survey finds UW-Madison alumni starting companies across the state
A survey just completed by the Wisconsin Alumni Association shows a substantial level of business startups among graduates of the University of Wisconsin-Madison....
May 6, 2015
Exact Sciences reports strong growth trajectory for Cologuard™ in first-quarter 2015
Exact Sciences announced its first quarter business and financial results, reporting that 11,000 Cologuard™ tests were completed and that the number of ordering physicians more than doubled, increasing from 4,100 at the end of 2014 to 8,300 in the first quarter of 2015....
May 6, 2015
Static Mixer and Caffeinated Mint among top winners of Qualcomm Innovation Competition
The winner of the Qualcomm Innovation Competition on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus is a device that mixes chemicals within a pipe. The contest challenges UW-Madison students to develop new products or technologies and marry those ideas with market-ready business plans....