Join us as Phyllis Arthur, Vice President for Infectious Diseases and Diagnostics Policy at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) talks to us about vaccine testing and safety for the general population, distribution, vaccine facts and fiction, and what each of us can do to ensure...
The Innovation-to-Market course is intended as an entry point for innovators, seekers of a creative solutions, designers of novel approaches to social problems or makers of impactful products at the University of Wisconsin–Madison....
Gentueri, which had four employees a year ago and mostly produced swabs for sexual assault kits, in March started making nasal swabs for COVID-19 testing. The company, founded in 2012, has more than 35 workers today and in September moved from southeast Madison to a...
The $250,000 in funding for the Center will come from the city’s Small Business and Equity Recovery Program, which was introduced in October to address “historic and current inequities in funding and support for small businesses owned by people of color”....
The federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) reopened Monday with businesses and nonprofits serviced by small and minority-owned lenders getting the first chance to apply for loans, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), which administers the program....
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health are breaking new ground to make cancer cells more susceptible to attack by the body’s own immune system....
Madison-based Exact Sciences Corp. on Tuesday announced that it has completed its acquisition of cancer-screening firm Thrive Earlier Detection Corp. that was one of two deals announced Oct. 27....
The 2021 King Holiday Observance set for Jan. 18 will feature Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own,” a book with “elements of biography, criticism and memoir” regarding the late writer and activist, according...
Throughout the year, WEDC has continued its traditional focus on finding ways for new businesses to start and existing ones to expand, and for communities to grow....
A cornerstone of the package is the latest version of the Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP in its acronym form, because it aims to truly help small businesses that have suffered the most during the nine-month-old pandemic....
There are a mix of reasons why many people are on the fence about getting vaccinated. A quarter of all Americans recently told national pollsters they’re not worried about getting the coronavirus, despite 300,000 reasons to reconsider....
The 18th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest is accepting entries online for the 2021 competition through 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, 2021. ...
UW Health received its first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine the morning of Monday, Dec. 14....
Selected from more than 400 innovation disclosures, two University of Wisconsin-Madison teams working at the frontiers of cancer immunotherapy and bioengineering have taken top honors from WARF....
A team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin–Madison professor David Gamm is developing a transplantable retinal patch intended to help restore vision to military personnel blinded in the line of duty and to treat individuals with degenerative eye diseases such as macular degeneration....
Chancellor Rebecca Blank Doesn't Expect Campus Community To Have Access To Vaccines Until Late Spring Or Summer....
The lab of Kris Saha at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has developed an innovative combination of gene-editing tools and computational simulations that can be used to develop new strategies for editing genes associated with genetic disorders....
The Center for Technology Commercialization (CTC) is offering a matching grant of up to $100,000 to provide additional assistance to companies in the process of completing a project in the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs....
2020 kept us busy at Wisconsin Inno, as we've worked to keep our readers up to speed with everything happening across the state's tech and startup scene. To recap the year that was, we wanted to take a look back at some of the biggest...
In this Badger Talks video, Tim Bertram, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of chemistry and an expert on air quality, discusses what we can do to minimize risk indoors....