31 Jul Medical collaborations at UW–Madison are changing lives
As a University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, endocrinologist, Dawn Belt Davis is fascinated with the exquisite way in which cells and bodily systems interact.
Her fascination goes further, though, extending to how scientists from an array of disciplines can work together on life-changing research aimed at stemming the growing and costly problem of diabetes.
“There are a lot of ways we can build new collaborations and bring in new areas of knowledge that overlap what we’re trying to do and move forward toward the ultimate goal of taking care of patients,” says Davis, a physician-scientist and executive director of UW-Madison’s Comprehensive Diabetes Center.
Those collaborations have the promise of tackling an often-deadly disease affecting an estimated 34.2 million Americans and exacting an annual health care cost of $3.9 billion in Wisconsin alone. Read more …