Biotech

University of Wisconsin-River Falls professors Mark Bergland and Karen Klyczek have received yet another National Science Foundation grant to develop educational software. The NSF has awarded them a $450,000 grant to continue their development of Case-It, a case-based learning software that is training the next...

It would appear that a declining number of companies are attracting more venture investment dollars, according to the quarterly investment report released by Ernst & Young and Dow Jones VentureOne. Wisconsin was symbolic of that trend, reporting only two deals for a robust total of...

An increasing number of Wisconsin biotech firms are achieving financial success, and they had the opportunity to convey that at the Wisconsin Biotechnology and Medical Device Association's annual conference. The event provided a platform to create additional success stories, with subject matter delving into partnerships,...

What can inventors do in response to the controversial KSR patent reform case? When considering patent protection, they should analyze the prior art landscape, according to Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek attorneys Jeffrey McIntyre and Jonathan Fritz. In this edition of IP Law, they write that understanding...

Some of the nation's cancer patients soon may be treated by physicians who have an improved software tool for the treatment of brain tumors. Kyron Clinical Imaging will use a $200,000 federal grant to further develop its brain-imaging tool, which has received Food and Drug...

The Wisconsin Security Research Consortium was created to improve Wisconsin's ability to attract and retain research and development grants, especially for sensitive research. It has been funded for less than a year but already has three projects in the works as it seeks to match...

Madison's Promega Corp. has reached an agreement with Amaxa, a German maker of pharmaceutical research tools, to develop cell products. The organizations plan to develop applications for monitoring signals between cells that are hard to reach using stem cells, cancer cells, and primary cells. ...

Columnist Michael Rosen does some Bio-MidAmerican Investor Conference follow up and looks at a recent report ranking the climate for start-up businesses in 178 countries. In this edition of Yer Biotech Blues, he notes that the United States and other major developed nations rank lower...

Global companies are discovering Wisconsin's many business benefits, as Microsoft's recent acquisition of Jellyfish.com clearly demonstrates, according to Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still. Microsoft, however, is only the latest corporate giant to "Discover Wisconsin" and its business merits, which speaks volumes about Wisconsin's ability...