Forget last Saturday's football showdown between the Wisconsin Badgers and the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Ignore the Monday night football game between the Green Bay Packers and Brett Favre's Minnesota Vikings. The real cross-border game these days is all about biotechnology. At least, that's the view from...
Forget the recession. Or perhaps, thrive in spite of it. That seemed to be the prevailing mindset at the AllThingsLifeSciences 2009 Venture Capital Forum held in Madison on October 1, 2009. Total funding sought by all 18 women-owned life science companies presenting at...
Stratatech Corp., a Madison firm that produces cell-based skin substitutes for medical research and therapeutic applications, has been awarded a $1.7-million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Under the grant, Stratatech will begin development of a novel, cell-based gene therapy product targeted to the...
There was a time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when starting a company ranked somewhere between gambling and arms dealing. Faculty members shunned entrepreneurship because it seemed to conflict with the school's true mission of conducting research and educating students, a debate that still rages at...
Promega announces the release of a suite of four STR kit configurations designed to fulfill latest DNA database standards established in Europe. With the new PowerPlex® ESX and ESI Systems, forensic laboratories can choose the format that best meets their needs and provide consistent data...
In a visit to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus, President Barack Obama announced $5 billion in grant awards under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) to fund cutting-edge medical research in every state across America. The more than...
The flight of promising biotech start-ups to Wisconsin does not bode well for Minnesota, a state that depends heavily on medical technology and devices for economic growth. Experts predict biotechnology will drive medical innovation over the next century and beyond. Wisconsin has become the regional...
Nineteen early stage companies from Wisconsin will be among 47 presenting companies at the MidAmerica Healthcare Venture Forum hosted by the Wisconsin Technology Council. The conference brings together CEOs and CFOs of healthcare companies, venture capitalists, corporate business development executives, angel investors, investment bankers, university...
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), both part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced grants expected to total approximately $45 million to establish new Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science in Wisconsin and North Carolina,...
Women CEOs of 18 early stage life science companies will gather at the Fluno Center in Madison on September 30th thru October 1st to compete for venture capital at the AllThingsLifeSciences 2009. Attendees will include regional and national investors seeking out promising early-stage companies. ...