Highly functional cardiomyocytes—the muscle cells responsible for the contraction of the heart—are important for disease modeling, drug screening, and other regenerative medicine approaches. In a new study published today in the journal Nature Communications, the Skala Lab developed a non-invasive imaging technique that can predict...
In partnership with Mike Gannon, Madison Magazine would like to honor Gannon’s legacy by spotlighting and awarding women who embody the work and progress Gannon so fiercely championed. This will be the inaugural year of The Amy Awards, which the magazine hopes will become an...
The summer 2021 class of SuccessWorks Internship Fund awardees are working at a diverse mix of public and private institutions, with many working in-person, others working a hybrid or completely virtual schedule, and one student completing a remote international internship based in Ghana....
Several UW–Madison leaders, innovators and key partners will join the slate of entrepreneurial events presented during the annual, eight-day Forward Fest, Wisconsin’s largest celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship....
University of Wisconsin–Madison and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists report today in the journal Science Translational Medicine that combining targeted radiopharmaceutical therapy with immunotherapy significantly boosts eradication of metastatic cancer in mice, even when the radiation is given in doses too low to...
Pyran, Inc., a high-growth company that creates high-performing 5-carbon products made from renewable resources, today announced that it has closed its latest round of fundraising, bringing its total of investments and grants to nearly $4 million....
In 1990 the physician-scientist Jon Wolff and his University of Wisconsin colleagues injected mRNA into mice - a first step toward making a vaccine from mRNA....
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a Toronto-based nonprofit that facilitates free mentorship for highly scalable, seed-stage science and technology startups. It operates in 10 cities worldwide — including Madison — through partnerships with universities in each location....
An upcoming addition to the news menu for entrepreneurs in Madison is “Innovate 608,” a podcast hosted and produced by StartingBlock, one of the city’s most familiar startup hubs....
In 2011, just 200 students were Computer Science majors. A decade later, the number of students enrolled in the discipline has grown more than ten times—a direct response to significant student interest and industry demand in our increasingly technology-driven society....
Madison-based FluGen has been awarded a $11.4 million grant from the Department of Defense to study the ability of its experimental flu vaccine to protect against drifted flu virus strains in older adults, the company said Thursday....
Nimble Therapeutics and RayzeBio today announced the companies have entered a strategic collaboration to discover and develop novel peptide-based radiopharmaceuticals for treatment of cancer....
The latest edition of “The Wisconsin Portfolio” shows more than $483 million was raised by the state’s early stage companies in 2020, a record for any calendar year in Wisconsin but still not on par with other Midwest states....
Madison's engineering talent is showing the fastest growth in proportion to population size. Results range from 4.6% growth in the tech talent pool for top-ranked Madison, Wis., to about break-even for No. 10 Denver....
Josh Cook, UW–Madison Geological Engineering class of 2015, became interested in renewable energy while participating in a summer intensive Mandarin language program in China. Cook witnessed the smog problem of large cities first-hand, “and that kind of set me on my way. I realized that...
Danaher has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Aldevron, for a cash purchase price of approximately $9.6 billion. ...
Wisconsin is home to one of just four federally funded bioenergy research centers nationwide. Together, the centers have launched 21 startup companies, discovered well over 750 new inventions, and optioned or licensed out hundreds of technologies....
UW-Madison professors at the forefront of sequencing COVID-19 strains in the community are expanding their research tracking the virus’ spread while fostering closer ties with more public health agencies with the hope of improving future pandemic response....
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), which manages intellectual property for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has just been ranked seventh for U.S. utility patents granted in 2020, according to the annual Top 100 Worldwide Universities report....
Emerging technologies developed at UW-Madison will receive a funding boost as the result of a $200,000 grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) in support of an on-campus grant program administered by UW’s Discovery to Product (D2P)....