Thanks to leadership from Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD, professor, Infectious Disease, and colleagues, the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital will join a national network of VA medical centers dedicated to strengthening clinical research at those centers....
Clinical trials drive progress forward. They give patients early access to new treatments that lead to better outcomes. Yet racial and ethnic minorities are underrepresented in clinical research, according to the FDA....
The National Science Foundation has released its 2020 fiscal year Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) data and the University of Wisconsin–Madison has again ranked 8th in the national research rankings for public and private universities....
Targeting cancers and viruses, better knowledge of the human immune system is leading to new medicines. By Daniel M. Davis, WIRED Around halfway through 2022, we will have witnessed a number of significant breakthroughs in ways in which we can engineer the body’s immune system to fight disease....
By Eric Boodman, STAT hat Christi Taylor-Gentry remembers most about third grade are the times when the teaching stopped and she and her twin sister were sent out of the room. They were new at Lanier Elementary. Their parents were newly divorced, their mom living in...
Small, unique antibody-like proteins known as VNARs — derived from the immune systems of sharks — can prevent the virus that causes COVID-19, its variants, and related coronaviruses from infecting human cells, according to a new study....
By Kathryn Larson, Spectrum News UW Health celebrates two decades of the world’s largest family history study one participant shares her deep connection to the important project. "It was very hard to watch her kind of wither away," daughter Kathy Schmitt said about seeing her mother, Dorothy,...
Two miles down Park Street from the UW–Madison campus are the facilities of the UW South Madison Partnership — an effort to overcome that geographic distance to draw the university and the neighborhood closer through respectful, equal collaboration....
Study of millions of people from diverse ancestral groups substantially improves identification of genomic variants associated with blood lipid levels....
UW–Madison researchers have developed a bandage that uses the body's own electrical energy to speed wound healing....
