University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Dave Pagliarini, a University of Wisconsin–Madison associate professor whose departmental home put metabolism research on the map worldwide, will help define the future of Wisconsin metabolism science as a lead investigator at the Morgridge Institute for Research. Pagliarini joins Morgridge from the UW–Madison Department of Biochemistry, which is home to some of the foundations of metabolism discovery, …
MCP Spring 2016 Student Seminar Series
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A interdisplinary team of UW–Madison researchers – including MCP faculty members Shigeki Miyamoto and David Beebe, as well as MCP alumnus Chorom Pak – recently developed an innovative model for the study of multiple myeloma tumors. The ex-vivo (outside the patient) model of the patient tumor microenvironment, MicroC(3), aims to allow scientists to test therapies …
Judith Kimble, professor of biochemistry at UW–Madison and a faculty mentor for the Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Training Program, has been selected by President Obama to chair the selection committee for the National Medal of Science. The National Medal of Science is awarded to individuals to recognize “outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, …
An important study led by the laboratory of MCP Faculty Member Dr. Ronald Raines was published in the latest issue of ACS Central Science, a journal of the American Chemical Society. The experiment identified Globo H, a well-known human cancer antigen, as a binding site for Human Ribonuclease 1, an enzyme that can kill cells by degrading their …
A study that was published online this week by Molecular Cell was the work of an interdisciplinary team of UW–Madison Scientists, building largely off the work of MCP Faculty Member Dr. Emery Bresnick. The Bresnick lab has previously shown that GATA-2, a protein that binds DNA to modulate gene transcription, plays an important role in hematopoiesis. Dr. …
March 9, 2015: Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Forum The Twelfth Annual MCP Symposium was held on Monday, March 9th, 2015. The keynote speaker was Dr. Elaine Fuchs of The Rockefeller University. To learn more about Dr. Elaine Fuchs’s work, click here. Dr. Elaine Fuchs Professor and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor …
MCP Faculty Member, Baron Chanda, from the Department of Neuroscience, was one of nine UW–Madison faculty members recently selected to receive a Romnes Faculty Fellowship. This award, given out by the Graduate School, recognizes exceptional young faculty members who have earned tenure recently. Dr. Chanda researches the molecular mechanisms underlying voltage-gated ion channels. View the Chanda Lab …
2-12-15: MCP Graduate Student Khoa Tran, in the laboratory of Dr. Rupa Sridharan (Dept. of Cell & Regenerative Biology) was the lead author on a paper recently published in Nature Communications, “Collaborative rewiring of the pluripotency network by chromatin and signaling modulating pathways.” The paper describes more efficient methods for the reprogramming of differentiated cells to …