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Dr. Darcie Moore, PhD, Assistant Professor and Trainer in the MCP Program, was recently honored nationally for her research. The Society for Neuroscience awarded her the Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience. Moore’s research focuses on unraveling the mechanisms behind the age-dependent decrease in regeneration of neurons in adults. The award, supported by The …
Jeff Jones, Current MCP student in Zhang Lab, is featured in the news for serving as a science camp volunteer with the Morgridge Institute for Research at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. Jones was helping lead and activity where students mounted fixed human embryonic stem cells on slides and looked at them through a microscope. …
Feyza Engin, Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Chemistry and Trainer in the MCP Program, has earned a Shaw Scientist Award from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. Engin will receive $200,000 in seed funding to advance her work. Her lab studies Type 1 diabetes, which affects about 3 million people in the United States and is increasing in …
Lynx Biosciences is developing technology to predict how multiple myeloma and other blood cancers will respond to drug treatment, with tests designed to select the drug most likely to benefit a patient. Lynx analyzes a patient’s tumor cells alongside their bone-marrow cells, which influence the tumor cells’ susceptibility and resistance to cancer drugs. The assay …
Joseph Szulczewski‘s paper titled “In Vivo Visualization of Stromal Macrophages via label-free FLIM-based metabolite imaging” was published in Nature Scientific Reports. Read it here.
Oisun Jung, 5th year MCP Student in the Rapraeger Lab, received an AHA predoctoral fellowship for her project: “Investigating a synergistic role of VEGFR2 and a4b1 integrin in the shed Sdc1 complex”
5-17-16: Kevin Oelstrom, PhD ’15, recently had a paper published with his former advisor, Dr. Baron Chanda. Read it here.
Joseph Szulczewski, an MCP student in the Keely lab won a NCI “Cancer Close Up” Microscopy contest for illustrating cancer research, along with a MSTP student Ryan Denu in the Burkard lab. They did a Q and A about their images. See more here: https://uwmadscience.news.wisc.edu/basic-science/cancer-gets-a-close-up/
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, …
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 …