Wisconsin bioscience companies have positioned themselves as national and international leaders in a range of industries - from molecular diagnostics to medical imaging. In this guest column, Jim Leonhart, executive vice president of the Wisconsin Biotechnology and Medical Device Association, explains how these businesses are...
The consensus opinion is that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision will have a profound impact on patent law, but will it affect the dispute over stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation? Combatants on both sides of the dispute weigh in,...
University of Wisconsin-Madison professors Sean Carroll and Laura Kiessling received a high honor this week as they joined 70 other scholars elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Election to the academy is one of the most prestigious honors an American scientist can receive....
For a company with a global reach, Promega Corp. goes about its business - the business of innovation - rather quietly. The privately held maker of research tools devotes 12 percent of its annual revenue to research and development, and the result has been 130...
The Abbott-Thailand patent saga is more than just a dispute between an American company and a foreign government, according to columnist and physician Ogan Gurel. At stake is what former Wisconsin governor and HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson calls “the balancing act between innovation and access.”...
Are American technology and life-science businesses getting a bum rap when they take advantage of the H-1B specialty worker program? Attorney Grant Sovern thinks so, and in this guest column he defends the program and urges Congress to lift the cap on the number of...
How do we excite more students about careers in the STEM disciplines? That's a question many educators and employers have been asking lately. In his latest Inside Wisconsin column, Tom Still recognizes Timothy Jump, an educator who may have the answer. Jump, who recently led...
University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell researcher Jamie Thomson has reportedly accepted an offer to open a research lab as an adjunct professor at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Thomson will remained a tenured professor at UW-Madison, and work in Santa Barbara for about one month...
An interdisciplinary team from the Medical College of Wisconsin and Milwaukee's Children's Research Institute have developed a searchable database to improve diagnostic testing and genetic tracking of human and animal influenza viruses. The database, a website that is constantly updated and can accommodate rapid response...
Mirus Bio Corp. is in a collaborative mood. First, the Madison biotlechnology company agrees to develop its lead therapuetic with the French firm Transgene S.A., and now it has received a $900,000 federal grant to develop a microRNA detection tool with a researcher at the...