The five-year study will provide state-of-the-art imaging and blood-based biomarkers for researchers around the world to study and advance the field of Alzheimer’s and related dementias. The work is also designed to shed light on mixed dementia, where more than one neurological disease is contributing...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized guidance on drug development programs for rare diseases, eliminating a section on natural history and providing additional considerations related to patient and caregiver input and pediatric populations....
To kick off the near year, UW Health is sharing key workforce, financial, care and community benefit outcomes and metrics for the health system....
ChatGPT created shock and awe across the world in 2023 after its initial launch in November 2022, and while we’ve reached the peak of gen AI hype, the practical application of gen AI within the life sciences industry has yet to materialize and have a...
A few years after her father passed away from the disease, Marilyn Krause enrolled in the AHEAD clinical trial at UW Health....
As 2024 gets under way, clinical trial stakeholders are witnessing transformative trends aimed at addressing these pain points. Below are some critical considerations for pharmaceutical sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) to keep top of mind in the new year....
Wisconsin’s strength in biohealth extends well beyond the laboratories where researchers are working to develop new drugs and therapies....
A clinical trial now open at UW Health | Carbone Cancer Center uses a patient’s dying tumor cells to try to teach their immune system to find and destroy cancer cells following surgery for a type of brain cancer called glioblastoma....
Technology developed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison to grow “rosettes” of brain and spinal tissue gives scientists new ways to study the growing human brain, including a recent study of how genetic mutations linked to autism affect early stages of human brain development....
In the span of two months, Sezar went from playing soccer with his siblings to becoming the first patient to receive a transplant through the pediatric heart transplant program at the UW Health Transplant Center....
