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Two graduate students in the Biotechnology Training Program have received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) awards. The five-year NSF GRFP program supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited institutions in the United States. The GRFP includes three years of financial …
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 in science. He then decided to go back to school for not one but two degrees. “A lot of medicine …
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 Medical Institute (HHMI). HHMI Gilliam Fellowships have a twofold mission: to support underrepresented PhD students to pursue scientific research and …
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 elements of engineering, mathematics, chemistry, and biology to create new systems from known biological components. But apart from that? “I’m …
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 proud to be a member of an international scientific and educational organization that supports an inclusive and diverse membership of …
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 Mentor Randolph Ashton, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Gavin Knight, Benjamin Knudsen and Nisha Iyer. Their work, Superior Neural Tissue …
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, colleague, mentor and friend, we honor her memory and her scholarly work. Jennie joined the Department of Chemical and Biological …
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 across campus. The BTP at UW–Madison, co-directed by Professors Brian Fox and Beth Meyerand, is one of the original BTP …
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 way to the International Space Station (ISS). Scientists in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Biochemistry are hoping that by sending them …