2023 health system highlights
To kick off the near year, UW Health is sharing key workforce, financial, care and community benefit outcomes and metrics for the health system....
05 January, 2024
UW–Madison
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
Stem cell technology developed at UW–Madison leads to new understanding of autism risks
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....
20 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
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
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