For years, Wisconsin could be described as a “flyover state” when it came to venture capital funds that historically clustered on America’s coasts. Why invest elsewhere if you could find all the talent and technology you needed in young companies a few blocks away?...
Gamma Biosciences, a global life sciences company serving the advanced therapy market, today announced an initiative through its subsidiary Mirus Bio, a leader in nucleic acid delivery technology, to develop novel, highly active lipid-polymer nanocomplexes for therapeutic mRNA delivery in vivo ....
Keith Poulsen, director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, with a team of diagnostic scientists led by Ailam Lim, had been closely tracking the ongoing spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza as migrating wild birds were spreading it across the country this winter and spring....
Advocate Aurora Research Institute, part of Advocate Aurora Health, is providing support to Forward BIOLABS, a premiere midwestern life science incubator, by offering its significant laboratory and clinical research capabilities to Forward BIOLABS’s network of early stage, biohealth startup companies....
“We demonstrate a potential way to solve the quality problem by making metal 3D printing technology much more reliable, enabling it to produce consistent, defect-lean parts,” Lianyi Chen says. “Using our unique method, we were able to 3D print a metal part that has very...
Annie Pankowski, a student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, never expected to add co-founder of a tech startup to her list of accomplishments. However, during the pandemic, veterinarians noticed a sharp increase in demands for care services and strained to find...
The head of UW-Madison’s School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences says technology education can play a key role in addressing the state’s workforce issues....
Morgridge Investigators Jason Cantor, Kevin Eliceiri, and Melissa Skala received award funding from the American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, and the National Eye Institute for projects in metabolism and biomedical imaging....
WEDC Secretary and CEO Missy Hughes says the state should do more to elevate female entrepreneurs and women-owned startups. Speaking yesterday during a webinar for International Women’s Day, Hughes said Wisconsin is “keeping pace” with national trends for investment in women-owned businesses, but “we need...
Madison gained more technology sector jobs in the first year of the pandemic than in the prior half decade, according to a new report by a Washington, D.C., think tank. While tech employment numbers grew by 3.6% between 2015 and 2019, that number jumped an...
James Thomson helped the scientific world turn its attention to the shape-shifting stem cells that give rise to all of the building blocks of complex living organisms, from skin and bone, to hearts and blood, to neurons and brains. After more than 30 years with...
Fifty-five entries from 24 communities have advanced to the semi-final round of the 19th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest, contest producers announced....