A new federal designation will move 14 counties in south-central and southwestern Wisconsin to the front of the line for perhaps $75 million in federal grants over the next two years for a series of projects in the food manufacturing and biotech sectors....
A gift to the Morgridge Institute for Research's 'Fab Lab' will help spur medical device innovations coming directly from doctors....
Exact Sciences’ ambitious plan to commercialize molecular diagnostic tests for several of the deadliest cancers is starting to come into focus....
URP Managing Director Aaron Olver delivered a keynote during the International Economic Development Council's Economic Future Forum that emphasized the fact that successful innovation requires communication and collisions of people to spark new ideas....
At the end of April, MadREP moved its offices from downtown Madison out to the University Research Park....
Invenra, one of the few companies working on new ways to make therapeutic monoclonal antibodies using cell-free protein expression, today announced a partnership with U.K.-based Oxford BioTherapeutics aimed at commercializing a new cancer treatment....
Kevin Conroy, CEO of Madison’s fast-growing Exact Sciences cancer diagnostic company, said that Wisconsin could use Switzerland as a role model to grow its biotech companies, increase innovation and fuel economic development. ...
Is Wisconsin producing enough startup companies? No, especially when all startups are counted… whether those young companies are bakeries, burger joints, beauty salons or biotechnology firms. What often matters more than the sheer number of startups is the survivability and “scale up” stages for young companies,...
The Madworks accelerator program recently launched its fourth cohort, supporting startup companies through grants and mentorship....
By Joe Tarr, Isthmus Dr. Richard Boland has been fighting a long battle against a stealthy foe — colon cancer. If caught early, the disease is one of the easiest cancers to treat and has one of the highest survival rates. But, Boland laments, most people who...
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....
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...