Seventeen projects, ranging from topics such as electrical stimulation for advanced wound healing to establishing a Radio Astronomy Data Science Center at UW–Madison, and expanding the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) into the next decade, have …
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BTP Mentors receive prestigious campus awards
Thirty-two members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty have been awarded 2019-20 faculty fellowships, including three Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) Mentors. The awardees span the four divisions — arts and humanities, physical sciences, social sciences …
UW Changes Lives: Building a biomanufacturing hotbed
To Bill Murphy and the other leaders of the Forward BIO Initiative, Wisconsin possesses all the elements to become a hub of biomanufacturing in the United States, the Midwest’s version of Boston or San Francisco in this rapidly …
BTP trainees learn about opportunities in industrial biotechnology on visit to cheese factory
To learn about industrial biotechnology’s role in the cheese and dairy industry, Ph.D. trainees in the UW–Madison Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) recently traveled to Cedar Grove Cheese located in Plain, Wisc. At the cheese factory …
Two BTP trainees garner 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Congratulations to two Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) trainees who received 2019 Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Katherine Bultman from the Microbiology Doctoral Training Program under BTP mentor Mark Mandel Katherine Senn …
Personalized in vitro model enables drug screening for kidney cancer
One way to treat the most common type of kidney cancer is to use anti-angiogenic drugs to cut off the blood supply to the tumors, but patients respond differently to the drugs, and choosing the wrong …
MR Guidance: Next frontier in hemorrhagic stroke
Stroke treatment has come a long way in the past decade: patients, hurried by the slogan “time is brain,” are visiting stroke centers for injections of clot-busting drugs to prevent brain damage. But that progress …
Giving guidance: Chesler pens how-to on promoting diversity, inclusion in biomedical engineering
On more occasions than Naomi Chesler would prefer, she’s heard academic colleagues respond to discussions about diversity and inclusion with a familiar refrain. “I’ll have to ask our [insert underrepresented minority label] faculty member about that.” Chesler, …
Three BTP mentors receive funding from cancer research from The Ride
On a beautiful September Sunday, hundreds of bicyclists pedaled the roads of eastern Dane County on The Ride to raise money for cancer research. This weekend, their fundraising came home to support cancer research at …
The director’s cut: Heidi Dvinge looks at RNA splicing with a film critic’s eye
After filming a movie, scenes are cut and rearranged to tell the director’s story. A similar editorial process occurs in our cells in a process called RNA splicing. Before the DNA code is translated into …