Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin has appointed a 17-member search and screen committee to help identify a vice chancellor for research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Steve Ackerman, who served as vice chancellor for research and …
Year: 2023
UW researcher’s career inspired by his own spinal cord injury
Dan Hellenbrand grew up on a small farm near Lodi and by his 20s was on the path to his desired career in carpentry. Then, in an instant, that path vanished.In April 2003, he was …
Mineral coatings could enable shelf-stable mRNA therapies
The rapid development of mRNA-based vaccines against COVID-19 was a gamechanger in the global pandemic. The vaccines employ messenger RNA to direct cells to produce a protein from the surface of the virus—triggering an immune …
UW researchers will develop gene editing therapy to treat blindness
With new support from the National Institutes of Health, a team of researchers at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery will lead drug therapeutics testing for two diseases known to cause blindness. Over the next five …
Clemson Award for Applied Research
“The impact of Dr. Murphy’s translational biomaterials research is huge; the products successfully translated from Dr. Murphy’s lab are of critical importance. For example, the TruMatch Graft Cage™ is a 3D-printed personalized resorbable implant for …