After recently receiving its at-home or self-collection authorization from the FDA, Exact Sciences has a new option for employers to test their employees for COVID-19. The FDA approval allows someone to swab on their own without a medical professional....
While economic uncertainty and the changes to daily life caused by the global pandemic have created countless challenges for business owners across many sectors, startup companies founded by UW–Madison innovators have managed to demonstrate resilience....
The Food and Drug Administration has granted priority review to an application for StrataGraft, a regenerative tissue developed by a Madison company as an alternative to skin grafts in treating burns....
Reverse mentoring may not yet be formally practiced in Greater Madison, but the benefits of more seasoned execs learning from younger workers are hard to deny....
WEDC Secretary and CEO Missy Hughes speaks with Olver about the state’s technology ecosystem and how it remains successful during a pandemic....
Family-owned businesses are unique in that the mantle of leadership is most often passed down from one generation to the next rather than passed along to an executive who has come in from outside the company....
The latest edition of “The Wisconsin Portfolio” shows more than $450 million was raised by the state’s early stage companies in 2019, a record for any single year in Wisconsin....
A Madison-based “drug delivery” technology platform for extended-release medications used in the treatment of opioid addiction took home the grand prize in the 17th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. Jacqueline Hind, Lisa Krugner Higby, Timothy Heath and others created Plumb Pharmaceuticals, which is a platform technology for...
The test GoDx is developing, CEO Chang Hee Kim said, wouldn't require a lab, instead offering results at the point of care in about 30 minutes....
Madison-based Nimble Therapeutics is collaborating with Roche Diagnostics to discover and develop novel peptide-based molecules for diagnostics of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19....