Wisconsin woman participates in Alzheimer’s disease study after losing father
A few years after her father passed away from the disease, Marilyn Krause enrolled in the AHEAD clinical trial at UW Health....
03 January, 2024
Clinical Trials
Enhancement, Efficiency, Equity, and Engagement: Four Trends Shaping Clinical Trials in 2024
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....
03 January, 2024
UW clinical trial tests new way to treat glioblastoma
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....
21 December, 2023
UW Health Transplant Center celebrates first pediatric heart transplant
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....
20 December, 2023
Social determinants of health have high impact on informed consent comprehension, study finds
A recent study conducted through pediatric cancer trials found that limited health literacy and use of the Spanish language for medical communication impacted parents’ comprehension of informed consent....
19 December, 2023
Mineral coatings could enable shelf-stable mRNA therapies
A protective mineral coating identified by University of Wisconsin–Madison biomedical engineering researchers could allow powerful messenger RNA therapeutics like COVID-19 vaccines to be stored at room temperature, making them more accessible to lower-resourced communities across the world....
15 December, 2023
Clinical trial recruitment now available on MyChart
Patients at UW Health could now receive messages directly in MyChart inviting them to participate in health research. This year, patients who have access to their MyChart accounts might have noticed a new tab on their profile labeled “Research,” according to Dr. Mike Semanik, physician...
15 December, 2023
UW IRB Offers Office Hours
The IRB is hosting virtual office hours for researchers/study teams. Staff from both the Health Sciences and Minimal Risk Research IRBs will be available....
14 December, 2023
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
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