Dr. Weiping Tang (Professor in School of Pharmacy and MCP Faculty member) was one of sixteen professors who received Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Awards, recognizing research and teaching excellence. The award provides flexible research funding …
Achievements
Three MCP Faculty receive WARF, Kellett, Romnes awards
Thirty-two members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty have been awarded 2019-20 faculty fellowships. The awardees span the four divisions — arts and humanities, physical sciences, social sciences and biological sciences — on campus. Three …
Dr. Linda Schuler one of Four Faculty Receiving 2019 Hilldale Awards
Linda Schuler was a member of the first class of professors hired to inaugurate the UW–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine in 1983. Her research defined the genetic details of the hormonal control of milk production …
UW team led by Dr. Anderson and Dr. Cryns finds key to common cancer pathway in discovery that could unlock new therapies
Writing this week (March 18, 2019) in the journal Nature Cell Biology, a team led by University of Wisconsin–Madison cancer researchers and MCP faculty Richard A. Anderson and Vincent Cryns reports the discovery of an …
Dr. Zhao and Dr. Chapman Published in Nature Neuroscience
UW-Madison research published this week reveals how one mutation causes fragile X, the most common inherited intellectual disability. “Fragile X syndrome has been studied as a model of intellectual disability because in theory it’s comparatively …
HungTae Kim Awarded NIH F31 NRSA Fellowship
HungTae Kim, 5th year Graduate Student in the MCP Program was recently awarded an NRSA F31 Fellowship from NIH! HungTae is conducting research in the Davis Lab in the Department of Medicine, Endocrinology.
Dr. Tim Bugni Collaboration with Dr. Currie on New Source of Antibiotics
UW-Madison Scientists have discovered a new antibiotic from a Brazilian fungus-farming ant, naming it cyphomycin. Cyphomycin was effective in lab tests against fungi resistant to most other antibiotics and combatted fungal infections without causing toxic …
Interview with MCP Faculty, Su-Chun Zhang and featured image by MCP Alumnus, Jeffrey Jones
Five questions with Su-Chun Zhang, forger of brain cells
Lucas Tomko, PhD Published in Nature Scientific Reports
Lucas Tomko, PhD, was recently published in Nature Scientific Reports. He is a graduate of the MCP Program in 2017 from the Keely Lab.
Dr. Xinyu Zhao receives Award from National Fragile X Foundation
Dr. Xinyu Zhao, Professor of Neuroscience and MCP Faculty, recently received a research award from National Fragile X Foundation. They give one award every two years at their national meeting attended by scientists, clinicians, and …