OpGen completes $5 million investment round
Madison, Wis. — OpGen, a company that makes optical tests capable of quickly finding genetic differences between individuals, has completed the final stage of its $5 million investment round....
Madison, Wis. — OpGen, a company that makes optical tests capable of quickly finding genetic differences between individuals, has completed the final stage of its $5 million investment round....
Madison, Wis. — Governor Jim Doyle announced Wisconsin’s next energy move would be away from oil on Friday with the creation of the Biofuels Initiative....
Madison, Wis. — “Wisconsin is on the move” was the theme of Governor Jim Doyle’s speech on the “State of the State” Wednesday evening in the state Capitol. WTN compiled this point-by-point guide to his stances on business and technology....
Madison, Wis. — Mark Cook, a tenured animal sciences professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, had seen his patents get licensed out to several businesses, only to sit on the shelves. After being approached by interested entrepreneurs, he decided to take a direct hand...
A coalition of research and metropolitan groups in the Milwaukee area is making plans for an incubator for start-up biotech companies....
The University of Wisconsin Medical School’s dean of more than a decade, Philip M. Farrell, plans to leave administrative office at the end of 2005 to go back to research on cystic fibrosis....
Milwaukee — ZyStor Theraputics, Inc., has completed part of its $8.5 million financing and bought technology from St. Louis-based Symbiontics, Inc., for treating rare diseases, the company said....
Over the last two years of writing this column, I have become aware of a lot of life science companies headquartered or operating in the Midwest. Part of the challenge of this column has been to bring them to the item of my readers....
Madison, Wis. — Students at the University of Wisconsin's biomedical engineering department will have a chance to bring a semester’s worth of work into the spotlight on Friday at the Biomedical Engineering Design Expo....
A Wisconsin patent lawyer examines a Supreme Court decision not to save an overturned biotech patent, and recommends taking some care when describing your inventions in patent claims....