Entrepreneurs

Halfway into a five-year, $5 million grant to spur entrepreneurship, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has started a host of programs designed to help get students into business. The university has used the money to roll out new initiatives, from an arts enterprise club to a specialized...

University of Wisconsin-Madison cancer researcher Jing Zhang received a Shaw Scientist Award last week from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation to support her novel research on the roles cancer stem cells may play in the causes and treatment of cancer. The Shaw Award - a $200,000 unrestricted...

Who gets diluted by the employee incentive pool? Typically, once an entrepreneur and prospective investor decide they want to make a deal, they negotiate a valuation and work out a variety of other key terms for the investment. One of those terms is usually...

Patti Brennan, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison described as an authority in the field of health informatics, spoke on the emerging field of home-health information technology at the seventh annual Digital Healthcare Conference 2009 last week. Her talk, “Hi-tech Health@Home: New Center of...

Competing and winning federal research and development (R&D) awards is a high-contact sport. Researching the agencies, laboratories, systems and business processes can be overwhelming. I have learned a few things along the way that may be valuable to companies considering federal funding to support their innovative...

As Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle marks Digital Health Information week, health information technology leaders will gather for WTN Media’s seventh annual Digital Healthcare Conference. The event takes place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Fluno Center for Executive Education this Wednesday and Thursday, May 6 -7....

Madison start-up Stemina Biomarker Discovery Inc. has launched its first commercial product, which uses human embryonic stem cells to screen drugs for their likelihood to cause birth defects. The launch comes shortly after President Barack Obama lifted restrictions on stem cell research, opening up opportunities...

Science acting in concert with ethics could help generate a better crop of second generation of genetically modified crops, according to Paul B. Thompson, who argues that biotechnology has made some considerable contributions to the growing discussion about sustainability. “It’s useful to think of sustainability...