University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
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.
We remember a leader of the MCP program, an outstanding scientist, and dedicated friend, Dr. Patti Keely.
Dr. Anjon Audhya, PhD, MCP Program Director (Associate Professor in Bimolecular Chemistry), and Dr. Beth Weaver, PhD, MCP Trainer (Associate Professor in Cell and Regenerative Biology), both recently received Romnes Faculty Fellowships. Read more here.
Dr. Richard Anderson and Dr. Vincent Cryns have been awarded a Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Breakthrough Award by the Department of Defense office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP).
Wenxuan (Vege) Cai (3rd year, Ying Ge Lab) has been awarded a 2 year predoctoral fellowship by the American Heart Association!
10-20-16: Dr. Vincent Cryns, MD, Professor and Trainer in the MCP Program, and his research team have developed a new strategy to treat triple-negative breast cancer by metabolically priming cancer cells to respond to a targeted cancer therapy. The new clinical trial involves a low-methionine diet in combination with a new cancer drug that actives …
Dr. Ed Chapman, PhD, Professor in Neuroscience and Trainer in the MCP Program, was one of 30 neuroscientists nationally to receive a prestigious new federal grant designed to support long-term research in the laboratories of some of the country’s most creative and productive scientists. He has been awarded a R35 Research Program Award (RPA), from the …
Adam Schaenzer, 4th Year MCP Student, Sauer Lab, was recently selected as a recipient of a PhRMA Foundation Award. The award, a Pre Doctoral Fellowship in Pharmacology/Toxicology, encourages integrative training to employ concepts of molecular and cellular biology to pharmacology research. The award assists students in the advanced stages of their training and thesis research. Adam’s current research specifically focuses …