Throughout April, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) will host a three-part mini-series on technology commercialization and industry partnerships. Ahead of those events, Norman Drinkwater, Interim Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, sat down …
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Introducing Innovate
UW‒Madison’s new Innovate Network compiles education, funding, news, and events for faculty, staff, and student inventors and entrepreneurs. Maintained by Discovery to Product, Innovate is the front door to locate resources that help UW–Madison problem …
New project links Madison, Boston scientists
An invention designed to transform how and where high-powered research microscopes are deployed — and who gets to use them — will make its way from Madison this spring to the fertile biology labs of …
The role of the student engineer in medicine and innovation
Noted: Discussion of the rise of biomedical engineering departments (BMEs) at universities, referencing linkages between the BerbeeWalsh Prototype Pathway at the Morgridge Institute for Research, BME design courses at UW–Madison, patenting and licensing support from …
Drawing venture capital in an agtech startup
Noted: Kieran Furlong with Discovery to Product is also a partner with Finistere Ventures, where he makes venture capital investment decisions. Furlong appeared on the Salt of the Earth podcast to share insights on criteria …
UW-Madison spinoff Atrility’s device improves pediatric heart rhythm monitoring
The mother of invention visited Nicholas Von Bergen while he was caring for a newborn in the pediatric intensive care unit at American Family Children’s Hospital. Without the recent heart surgery, the infant faced a …
UW alum masterminding next generation data storage: A solution to the datapocalypse?
CATALOG, a Boston company co-founded by a recent UW–Madison Ph.D., is preparing to demonstrate the world’s fastest, densest DNA-based data-warehouse.
Isomark test detects infections two days before formal diagnosis
Noted: A device from Madison-based startup Isomark has been shown to detect infections two days before they could be diagnosed in a clinical setting. The study was conducted at four clinical sites, including UW-Madison, where …
NIH redoubling support in search for new antibiotics
The National Institutes of Health is redoubling support for UW-Madison researchers scouring the world for new sources of antibiotics. This comes as more than two million drug-resistant infections are reported every year, according to the …
A health-minded business accelerator program debuts
Noted: Thomas “Rock” Mackie has been named to lead the new Isthmus Project, a new accelerator on the UW-Madison campus that is designed to move inventions specifically from UW Health or the UW School of …