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Gail Robertson, professor of Neuroscience and trainer in the MCP Program, studies how excitable cells of the heart and brain produce coordinated electrical activity. Her research led to the development of drug safety tests used worldwide to reduce the risk for life-threatening cardiac side effects. Robertson has had teaching and leadership roles in medical education …

Congratulations to Dr. Ed Chapman, HHMI Investigator, Professor in the Dept of Neuroscience, and MCP Trainer, on publishing “Dynamics and number of trans-SNARE complexes determine nascent fusion pore properties” in Nature. View the full text paper here.

Dr. Timothy Kamp, MD, PhD, Professor and Dr. Herman and Ailene Tuchman Chair in Clinical Cardiology, Cardiovascular Medicine, is among UW–Madison members involved in a new $20M cell-based therapy center funded by the National Science Foundation. Read more here.

Chantell Evans, PhD, graduated from the Chapman Lab in 2015. She is now a postdoctoral fellow in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and has been selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) as one of 15 early-career scientists in its first cohort of HHMI Hanna Gray Fellows

Dr. Alan Rapraeger, Professor of Human Oncology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and MCP Trainer, has been awarded a five-year, $1.9 million R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute to investigate signaling mechanisms that drive myeloma cell proliferation, survival and invasion. Read more here.