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Jose Martinez connects science and policy as a BTP trainee

Posted on March 7, 2022

While working as a health care administrator in Santa Cruz, California during the 2015 Zika virus outbreak, Jose Martinez realized his background in chemistry and pharmacology could be harnessed to set policies that are grounded …

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BTP trainee-mentor pair awarded HHMI Gilliam Fellowship for research, inclusion initiatives

Posted on August 31, 2021

Aldo Arellano, a Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) trainee and PhD candidate in the Microbiology Doctoral Training Program, and Kerri Coon, assistant professor of Bacteriology, have received Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study from the Howard Hughes …

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Two generations of BTP trainees intern, work at same company

Posted on August 27, 2021

When Maya Venkataraman, a third-year chemical and biological engineering graduate student in the Biotechnology Training Program (BTP), started grad school, she knew she wanted to study something related to synthetic biology, a field that combines …

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Biochemistry Professor and BTP mentor James Ntambi re-elected to ASBMB Council

Posted on August 26, 2021

Biochemistry Professor and BTP mentor James Ntambi was recently re-elected to the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Council. Ntambi has served as a member of the ASBMB Council since 2018. “I feel …

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Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) provides message on ‘The Endless Frontiers Act’ for attendees of BTP 2021 Virtual Winter Banquet

Posted on March 8, 2021
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Ashton Receives Prestigious WARF Invention Award, McClean a finalist

Posted on December 10, 2020

Each fall the WARF Innovation Awards recognize some of the best inventions at UW-Madison.  From more over 350 innovation disclosures, and six finalists, the WARF 2020 Innovation Awards winners include the team of BTP Faculty …

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A Tribute to BTP Faculty Mentor, Professor Jennie Reed

Posted on July 22, 2020

BTP Faculty Mentor Jennifer L. Reed, Professor of Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering , passed away on July 5, 2020, after a long illness.  With great sorrow over the loss of a brilliant scientist, …

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Biotechnology Training Program Awarded NIH T32

Posted on July 1, 2020

The Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) was awarded a T32 Predoctoral Training Grant from the National Institutes of Health. The award provides a total of $4.8 million over five years to support 20 doctoral students from …

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Interstellar biological experiments could aid human space travel

Posted on February 17, 2020

On Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020, a rocket and spacecraft were launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia carrying tubes of bacteria and bacteriophage, the viruses that prey on bacteria. They are now on their …

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BTP helps trainee navigate patent application to protect research invention

Posted on February 10, 2020

Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) trainee Lindsay Bodart first learned about patents and intellectual property in her Foundations of Biotechnology course at the start of graduate school. Little did she know that a few years later, …

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