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...
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....
Madworks Coworking’s accelerator program on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, recently launched its summer 2015 session with seven startups....
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....
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....
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....
Currently, more than 3,800 people are employed by the 126 businesses and organizations in the University Research Park....