Brian Fox, the Marvin J. Johnson Professor in Fermentation Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, tinkers with the way living things use chemistry to turn their own blueprints, DNA, into the processes that make a …
Biohealth
Tom Still: Building on a natural strength — Wisconsin’s health-tech industry
Abingdon Health is a company born in York, England, with an international reputation for developing and producing “lateral-flow” diagnostic tests used in health care, agriculture and beyond. When it came time to sink deeper roots …
Wisconsin Biohealth Tech Hub
These compound words encompass fundamental discoveries in biology that can help build tools to make research advance more quickly and efficiently; develop therapeutics through translational research; and manufacture those therapeutics at scale. Further benefits relate …
Rising Sparks: Kayla Huemer, biomedical engineering alum
A line from Apple founder Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford University commencement address carries special meaning for Kayla Huemer as she ventures out into Africa, committed to advancing global health development through technology. “He said, ‘You …
Light-trapping metasurface tech boosts biosensors
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineers has developed a thin, patterned, silicon-based component that excels at trapping non-visible light and could open up low-cost manufacturing possibilities for biochemical sensors and more. The group, …
Wisconsin’s Drive for $75M Towards Personalized Medicine Innovation
Madison, Wisconsin, Feb. 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Following Wisconsin’s designation as a Regional Technology and Innovations Hub (Tech Hub) from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) last October, the Wisconsin Biohealth Tech Hub submitted its Phase …