MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has announced $159.8 million of total support in the academic year ending in 2025 for University of Wisconsin-Madison research. The support includes a three-year, $15 million grant to …
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UW-Madison biomedical engineers win Collegiate Inventors Competition
University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Lauren Fitzsimmons and recent graduates Molly Paras (BSBME ’24) and Zach Spears (BSBME ’24) won first place in the 2024 Collegiate Inventors Competition in Alexandria, Virginia. The group’s “Nerve Ninja” earned …
SHINE Technologies Collaborates with University of Wisconsin-Madison and WARF Therapeutics to Create Promising New Treatments for Kidney and Prostate Cancers
SHINE Technologies, a next-generation fusion company, and WARF Therapeutics, a drug discovery program by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), today announced promising pre-clinical research results from collaborative efforts with Advanced Radiotheranostics Lab at the University …
Wisconsin Technology Council: Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship leader Olszewski to receive ‘Triple E’ award at Early Stage Symposium
Dan Olszewski, whose career spans teaching, mentoring and running a young company, will accept the “Excellence in Entrepreneurial Education” award over lunch on Nov. 13 at the Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium. The conference will be held in-person at …
Submissions invited for WARF/Route 66 Ventures Cardiology Challenge Grant
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Route 66 Ventures have teamed together to launch a fall challenge aimed at advancing innovative cardiovascular technologies. Principal Investigators (PIs) and their teams are invited to submit a brief …
Cell Logistics: Improving treatment for heart disease
Cell Logistics began as a discovery in the UW-Madison Department of Medicine and sprouted into a company with the mission to commercialize a product to aid in the treatment of heart disease. Eric Schmuck, Ph.D.; …
SBA awards grant to impact underserved innovators
A unique new program, SBIR Labs, focused on streamlining Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programming in Wisconsin has received a competitive federal grant. The Center for Technology Commercialization (CTC) …
Deshpande receives highly regarded Grainger Fellowship
Sanket Deshpande, PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received a prestigious Grainger Fellowship for graduate researchers. Deshpande works in the research group of Jack St. Clair Kilby Professor Mikhail Kats, …
October Shout-Outs: Steven Wright and Pascale Carayon on election to the National Academy of Engineering
Congratulations to Steven Wright and Pascale Carayon on their election to the National Academy of Engineering. Election to The National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Stephen J. …
Wisconsin Innovation Awards see 3 Dane County winners
Eight winners, including three from Dane County, were honored from a pool of 31 finalists and more than 200 nominees at the 2024 Wisconsin Innovation Awards, held Tuesday at Madison’s Memorial Union. The event celebrated …