Progress on Alzheimer’s Disease
According to UW–Madison geriatrician Nathaniel Chin, "We are on a trajectory for prevention."...
09 June, 2023
Clinical Trials
UW Health, UW School of Medicine and Public Health to launch clinical trial review process
UW Health and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) have convened a new committee to help centralize and streamline the clinical trials review process at UW–Madison....
07 June, 2023
UW researchers will trial gene editing therapy to treat blindness
With new support from the National Institutes of Health, a team of researchers at the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery will lead drug therapeutics testing for two diseases known to cause blindness....
06 June, 2023
Drug cuts risk of breast cancer recurrence for some early-stage patients, trial shows
A drug used in people in the early stage of the most common kind of breast cancer – HR+/HER2- breast cancer – significantly reduced the risk of the cancer returning after treatment, according to a new study....
02 June, 2023
UW Carbone Cancer Center receives SPORE designation, federal grant to support prostate cancer research
University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center will be designated as a Specialized Program of Research Excellence, or SPORE, by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for research initiatives to advance new prostate cancer treatments....
01 June, 2023
How to overcome the catch-22 in precision medicine
In order to advance precision medicine, we need to focus on improving outreach to and the experience of patients....
31 May, 2023
UW researchers using AI to hone brain cancer care, diagnosis
Researchers with the UW Carbone Cancer Center are developing AI techniques to improve personalized treatments for brain cancer and to avoid unnecessary biopsies and surgeries....
30 May, 2023
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
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