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  • BTP trainees make strong showing in 2018 NSF fellowships

    Four Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) trainees have received Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Edna Chiang from the Microbiology Doctoral Training Program under advisor Garret Suen Benjamin Gastfriend from…

  • BTP mentors receive prestigious university awards

    Several University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty members who serve as trainers for the Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) have earned prestigious university awards. Bacteriology professor Richard Gourse received the Hilldale Award in Biological Sciences,…

  • BTP Inspires Daniel Agnew to Pursue Career as Patent Agent

    The University of Wisconsin–Madison and Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) have a strong presence in biotechnology, entrepreneurship, and technology transfer. One essential element of these areas is the patent process. The Biotechnology…

  • Bringing cheap and accurate tuberculosis tests to Africa

    Since the 1970s, millions of women have appreciated the ease of a urine-based home pregnancy test to find out if their family is about to grow. A diagnostic test that’s just as…

  • New hope for stopping an understudied heart disease in its tracks

    The diminutive size of our aortic valve — just shy of a quarter — belies its essential role in pushing oxygen-rich blood from the heart into the aorta, our body’s largest vessel,…

  • All-in-one repair kit makes CRISPR gene editing more precise

    For the past five years, CRISPR-Cas9 technology has revolutionized the field of gene editing due to its ease and low cost. But although this technology reliably finds and cuts the targeted stretch of DNA…

  • Women BTP faculty mentors earn academic promotions

    The Biotechnology Training Program congratulates several dedicated women BTP trainers on their recent academic promotions. Sushmita Roy has been promoted to an associate professor with tenure. She is a faculty member in…

  • UW scientists create a recipe to make human blood-brain barrier

    The blood-brain barrier is the brain’s gatekeeper. A nearly impenetrable shield of cells, it keeps toxins and other agents that may be in circulating blood from gaining access to and harming the…

  • Jackie Mejia takes BTP skills to start up

    Jackie Mejia, a current trainee in the Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) and Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has helped co-found Pathogenomica, a startup that uses next generation DNA sequencing to detect…

  • UW–Madison to partner in $20 million cell-based therapy center

    The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $20 million to a consortium of universities, including the University of Wisconsin–Madison, to support a new engineering research center that will develop transformative tools and…