While the advent of advanced genomic and proteomic technologies fueled a wave of next-generation cancer treatments by enabling scientists to home in on targets with disease-driving mutations or high expression levels in diseased tissues, Immuto …
Medicine
Developing personalized cell therapies to cure disease
Dr. Jacques Galipeau is the associate dean for therapeutics development and the director of the Program for Advanced Cell Therapy (PACT), a collaboration between UW Health and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and …
Cho Lab Receives D2P SEED Funding to Develop App to Detect Birth Defects of the Skull
It’s not uncommon for infants to have a misshapen head, and often these skull deformities are caused by the baby’s position in the womb or when they pass through the birth canal during delivery. But …
5 Questions with Professor Dan van der Weide: From Early Research to Acquisition
Before the Technology Entrepreneurship Office (TEO) was established at UW–Madison, faculty like Professor Dan van der Weide were already demonstrating how groundbreaking research can turn into marketable products that make a positive impact in bettering …
PharmD Students, Emerging Entrepreneurs
About 200 million inhalers are dispensed per year, in the U.S. alone — enough to fill about 300 school buses. “The majority of inhalers end up in a landfill because they’re either recycled inappropriately or …
With focus on personalized medicine, Wisconsin vying to be one of nation’s elite tech hubs
Wisconsin’s biohealth industry, named one of 31 regional tech hubs by the Biden administration in October, plans to apply this week for the next phase: to become one of five to 10 hubs that will …