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 …
Achievements
Feyza Engin Earns Shaw Scientist Award for Innovative Research
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. …
Chorom Pak, MCP Alumnus, Finalist in Governor’s Business Plan Contest
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 …
Joseph Szulczewski Published in Nature Scientific Reports
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 Receives AHA Fellowship
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”
Joseph Szulczewski Wins Microscopy Contest
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 …
Morgridge selects Pagliarini to lead metabolism initiative
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 …
MCP Faculty and Recent Grad Help Develop Novel Chemosensitivity and Resistance Assay
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 …
Judith Kimble to Chair the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science
Judith Kimble, professor of biochemistry at UW-Madison and a faculty mentor for the Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Training Program, has been selected by President Obama to chair the selection committee for the National Medal of …
Raines lab identifies connection between two promising cancer treatment strategies
An important study led by the laboratory of MCP Faculty Member Dr. Ronald Raines was published in the latest issue of ACS Central Science, a journal of the American Chemical Society. The experiment identified Globo H, a …