MADISON, Wis. — GenTel BioSurfaces, Inc., a privately held UW–Madison biotechnology spin-off, announced today that it has appointed Thomas J. Burke, Ph.D., to its Scientific Advisory Board....
General Electric made clear this week -- with a one-two punch of an acquisition and a merger in a matter of hours -- that it intends to grow its GE Medical Systems division. But in some cases, the acquisitions may actually...
CHICAGO – How do we measure the improvement and success of biotechnology in Illinois and the Midwest? Though a sound scorecard doesn't yet exist to answer these very good questions, biotech expert Michael Rosen proposes a list of tangibles and intangibles in this edition of...
MADISON, WI - James Thomson, the Wisconsin scientist who was the first to isolate and culture human embryonic stem cells five years ago, has been named the recipient of the 2003 Frank Annunzio Award from the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, an independent federal government agency....
CHICAGO – Germany has often been regarded as the economic motor of the European community particularly with its central geographic location. It’s just south of Scandinavia, to the east of the U.K. and France, just north of Switzerland, Austria and Italy and west of the...
MILWAUKEE-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Advances in information technology are outstripping the development of new drugs as science's most significant contribution to treating and preventing disease. Today, information networks are making it possible to detect outbreaks of infectious diseases earlier, and advances in genetic profiling are enabling doctors to...
Wisconsin has just scored a rare double-header – with two research grants coming over the transom almost at once. The WiCell Research Institute (WiCell), a non-profit subsidiary of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation(WARF), has received a three-year, $1.7...
CHICAGO – Though results for third-quarter publicly traded biotech stocks continue to show strong growth, the rate of growth seems to be slowing down (or else the rest of the market is catching up). The Nasdaq Biotech index continues to lead with year-to-date sizzling growth of...
MILWAUKEE, WI - Representatives of the Medical College of Wisconsin, UW-Medical School, the Wisconsin Technology Network and Aurora -Sinai, were featured Sunday, Sept. 27 on the Milwaukee business television show, “Avante's Leaders in the New Economy,” that was broadcast, on WISN....
MADISIN,WI--A unique drilling rig, soon to be deployed to the South Pole to help an international consortium of scientists and engineers - including many from the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison - to build a neutrino telescope known as IceCube...