University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Dr. Ying Ge, MCP Trainer and Professor in the Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology and Dr. Lingjun Li, MCP Trainer and Professor in School of Pharmacy were recently named to the Top 100 Analytical Scientists, an honor that recognizes “the tremendous range of talent, ingenuity and leadership present across all corners of analytical science …
FRAXA Research Foundation has awarded a $90,000 research grant to principal investigator Dr. Xinyu Zhao and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Minjie Shen at the University of Wisconsin. They are investigating whether drugs which boost mitochondria — which provide the energy for cells — could treat Fragile X syndrome. Mitochondria are powerhouses that generates energy inside each …
Dr. Ed Chapman is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), and a Ricardo Miledi Professor of Neuroscience in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; he received the prize for his studies of exocytosis. He is also a trainer in the MCP Program. Chapman’s lab studies how neurons send …
Three MCP Faculty and their lab members are studying cell division to gain insight into cancer: Dr. Mark Burkard, Dr. Beth Weaver, and Dr. Aussie Suzuki. Read the full article here.
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 for one year. Dr. Jiaoyang Jiang, (Assistant Professor in School of Pharmacy and MCP Faculty member) was one of sixteen …
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 of our MCP faculty affiliates have received awards: Judith Kimble, Dave Pagliarini, and Wei Xu. Read more here.
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 in dairy cows. That work led Schuler to discover that the milk-stimulating hormone prolactin can induce breast cancer, distinguishing her …
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 unexpected regulator of the critical protein, opening the door to the development of drugs that could target it. Read more …
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 simple,” says senior author Xinyu Zhao, a professor of neuroscience in the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. …
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.