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Profiles
Chemistry Professor Bob Hamers Featured on Nanovation Podcast
Bob Hamers is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin—Madison and co-founder of Silatronix, a company that is commercializing a new electrolyte for Li ion batteries. Bob was recently featured on the Nanovation …
UW–Madison student and co-founder of Blexx featured on podcast
This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: The Podcast” features Erin Tenderholt, founder of a Madison-based startup called Blexx. Tenderholt has created a new patent-pending technology in hopes of improving how people dispose of hypodermic needles. “This …
UW-Madison startup lets businesses ‘chat’ with their data
Jignesh Patel, a University of Wisconsin-Madison computer scientist, wants to make understanding data like turning on lights in a house. You shouldn’t need an electrical engineer on hand for a bulb to illuminate after flipping …
Exploring Innovation at the Discovery Building
Right across West Johnson Street from Union South lies a building that, to many, around campus, is shrouded in mystery. Although the Discovery Building has plenty of windows and is designed for collaboration, community and …
UW Discoveries Drive Drug Development
The reinvention of a photographic film company has transformed a pioneering stem cell startup into a biotech leader with an eye toward regenerative medicine and drug discovery. The former Cellular Dynamics International Inc., with deep …
Small miracle: Stem cells drive research and entrepreneurship in Madison
In 1998, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers made waves in the worlds of biology and medicine, revealing they had five examples of human embryonic stem cells — biological building blocks at the foundation of cellular development …
UW Med School Leads the Way in Commercializing Research
Robert Golden, dean of the UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health for the past dozen years, leaned into the question as if he wanted no doubt to exist on where he stood. We were …
UW researchers, students partner with with local brewing company
Nowadays many people don’t enjoy their beer warm, but for most of the past couple thousand years, warm beer was the norm, according to Kirby Nelson, a brewmaster at the Wisconsin Brewing Company. After all, …
UW entrepreneurial pipeline lands Lactic Solutions in biofuels marketplace
When Jim Steele thinks back over the last seven years, from the early research on biofuels, followed by a dream of moving Lactic Solutions LLC technology to the marketplace, and now the acquisition of the …