Team Spotlight: Rebecca Kintner
Rebecca Kintner discusses her career path and current role as Clinical Research Negotiator and Fiscal Facilitator for the UW Clinical Trials Institute (CTI)....
13 December, 2023
Clinical Trials
The future of cancer care: a path toward personalized treatment
The biological complexity of cancer is individual to each patient, and it presents many roadblocks on the path toward optimal treatments. However, developments in DNA technologies and advanced imaging tools have greatly informed clinicians and researchers on ways to develop methods for precision care....
12 December, 2023
Study finds significant ethnic disparities in enrollment rates of gynecologic clinical trials
A recent study published on JAMA has found that there are significant racial and ethnic disparities present within the population of women undergoing treatment for gynecologic cancer....
11 December, 2023
Podcast: Innovate 608: Elizabeth Hagerman, Isthmus Project
Elizabeth Hagerman, chief innovation officer at UW Health and executive director of the Isthmus Project, discusses her background and the Isthmus Project's efforts to help UW- and UW Health-affiliated entrepreneurs take healthcare innovations through the commercialization process....
06 December, 2023
UW launches improved payment system for research participants
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is rolling out a new system to make payment to research participants easier and more efficient....
04 December, 2023
UW–Madison remains 8th in research ranking, surpasses $1.5 billion in research expenditures
The University of Wisconsin–Madison, for the first time, has topped $1.5 billion in research expenditures, according to the National Science Foundation. With this accomplishment, UW–Madison is ranked 8th among the nearly 900 public and private universities surveyed by NSF....
30 November, 2023
Lauren McLester-Davis becomes UW’s first director of Indigenous science advocacy
Lauren W. Yowelunh McLester-Davis, a University of Wisconsin–Madison neuroscientist and researcher, has joined the Native American Center for Health Professions (NACHP) in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health as its first director of Indigenous science advocacy....
29 November, 2023
Students’ invention aims to clip crucial minutes off endovascular surgeries
The device that netted a foursome of University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering classmates a 2023 Wisconsin Innovation Award doesn’t look flashy. It’s a small plastic cylinder, just over 1.5 inches in length, with a spring-loaded clip in the middle....
28 November, 2023
This lifesaving treatment was designed for one. Could it be the future of medical care?
Susannah is at the vanguard of a new movement in medicine: therapy so specialized it is designed for just a few patients, or even a single one. Such bespoke therapies are possible because of advances in medicine including gene therapy, the messenger RNA approach used...
26 November, 2023
Never Fear, Assertiveness is an Indispensable Soft Skill for Clinical Researchers
The duties of trial team members, other site staff, and their vendors are performed so “behind the scenes” compared to the rest of the institutions’ activities, it can be a struggle to get their priorities and contributions noticed properly by leadership. As a result, study...
21 November, 2023