Eradicate breast cancer? The hunt for a vaccine looks promising
In the last six months, multiple clinical trials have brought the idea of a preventative breast cancer vaccine much closer to reality....
30 May, 2023
Author: UW CTI
UW–Madison announces Clinical Trials Institute–alliance with Site Accreditation & Standards Institute (SASI)
The UW Clinical Trials Institute will seek to bolster consistency, quality and safety not to mention optimized resource allocation as UW-Madison ramps up its competitive position in the academic medical research ecosystem....
26 May, 2023
An mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer
An NIH-funded research team led by Dr. Vinod Balachandran from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) have been developing a personalized mRNA cancer-treatment vaccine approach....
23 May, 2023
UW Center for Healthy Minds will research machine learning predictions of well-being
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds are leveraging artificial intelligence to deliver personalized well-being content through a person’s mobile device when they need it most....
22 May, 2023
Photonics-based imaging shines light on cancer research
Creating functional organoids from a patient’s tumor tissue allows researchers to test different treatment options in a realistic environment to predict what’s most likely to benefit that patient....
18 May, 2023
Comparative cancer research at UW helping treat pets and humans
A new approach to cancer treatment is taking over at UW, thanks to a Super Bowl Commercial in 2020....
17 May, 2023
These next-generation vaccines could upend cancer treatment as we know it
Vaccines for heart disease and cancer could help combat these diseases and advance researchers' understanding of the human body, but are they the magic cure-all many expect them to be?...
15 May, 2023
The COVID-19 shot isn’t going away; it’s just adapting
The COVID-19 vaccine is now readily available at hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies across the state of Wisconsin as the federal declaration of emergency lifts Thursday. But it took years to get the vaccine rollout to this point, with plenty of bumps along the way....
11 May, 2023
Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month: Boosting clinical trial participation
Despite comprising 6% of the US population, Asian Americans accounted for just 2% of US clinical trial participants in studies between 2015 and 2019, based on 231 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) data snapshots....
10 May, 2023
FDA takes additional steps to advance decentralized clinical trials
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking additional steps to support the use of decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) for drugs, biologics and devices, where some or all the trial-related activities occur at locations other than traditional clinical trial sites....
02 May, 2023