UW Health earns national LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader designation
UW Health has again received the LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader designation from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation....
07 May, 2024
Clinical Trials
Dorota A. Grejner-Brzezinska named UW–Madison vice chancellor for research
Dorota A. Grejner-Brzezinska will serve as the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s vice chancellor for research. Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin named Brzezinska, a longtime Ohio State University engineering professor and GPS researcher, to the post today....
07 May, 2024
UW Health | Carbone Cancer Center research shines on global stage
Innovation does not happen in a vacuum—the biggest breakthroughs in cancer treatment and prevention happen because of teamwork across disciplines and between multiple academic centers and research institutions....
01 May, 2024
An electrifying discovery may help doctors deliver more effective gene therapies
In an effort to improve delivery of costly medical treatments, a team of researchers in electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has developed a stimulating method that could make the human body more receptive to certain gene therapies....
30 April, 2024
Protect the health of pregnant people and their children by including them in research
Pregnant people have the same diseases as others, including depression, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, and HIV. And pregnancy can cause serious conditions that require the use of medicine....
30 April, 2024
Cancer Treatment: Advances In The 20th And 21st Centuries
As one dives into the annals of cancer research history, the astounding pace of drug discovery and development, coupled with the emergence of multimodal and multidisciplinary innovations, evokes a sense of wonder....
29 April, 2024
New policy requires entry of UW clinical research studies into OnCore
Due to requirements for compliance, data gathering and monitoring, beginning July 1, 2024, all clinical research that is conducted by SMPH faculty or uses UW Health patients or resources is required to be entered into OnCore....
25 April, 2024
‘Other Duties as Assigned’: The Wide-Ranging Role of the CRC Professional
If “recruiting and screening patients who try new treatments and monitoring and reporting on patient progress” sounds like a reasonable, if skimpy, definition of the duties of a clinical research coordinator (CRC) at a clinical trial site, imagine the surprise of a newly minted CRC...
24 April, 2024
FDA Drug Approval Marks a New Day for Treating Pediatric Brain Cancer
Day One Biopharmaceuticals drug Ojemda is now FDA-approved for advanced pediatric low-grade glioma, the most common type of brain cancer in children. The regulatory decision for Ojemda covers a broader swath of patients than a drug combination from Novartis approved for treating this childhood cancer....
24 April, 2024
It’s Time to Give Patients a Seat at the Table
Clinical trials represent a critical path to innovative treatments, life-changing cures, and medical progress. But for all their scientific rigor, most trials fail to include one crucial element: input from the very people they aim to help....
24 April, 2024