Colleen Hayes, Ph.D., a nationally-recognized MS researcher and professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was inducted into the Volunteer Hall of Fame at the National Multiple Sclerosis Leadership Conference, November 8-10 in Dallas, Texas. She was inducted in the Scientific Researcher category.
For more than 25 years, Dr. Hayes has devoted a significant amount of time to studying nutrition and the immune system as well as laying the foundation for much of today’s research into the role of vitamin D in MS. She also has been involved as a research volunteer...
Congratulations Ralph Lab. The grant was received through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, administered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), to support research, teaching and sharing ideas abroad.
Cheap, simple bacteria test could spare newborns deadly infections.
"While that microbial environment in the gut is still developing, the introduction of one of many of the wrong kinds of bacteria may cause a severe immune response," says Douglas Weibel, biochemistry professor at UW-Madison. "In an infant, the immune system could just ravage the intestines."
The highest honor of the carbohydrate division of the American Chemical Society, the Hudson Award was established in 1946 to recognize outstanding contributions to carbohydrate chemistry in education, research, or applications.
Congratulations Dr. Kiessling.
In this role, Sussman will head up a small team of Biotech Center scientists that will use modern scientific tools to analyze DNA and protein from the bones, pottery, seeds and other specimens found at the site. These techniques are expected to reveal new information about what life was like for Trojans.
This year the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Innovation Awards program began honoring inventors for the year’s most exceptional UW-Madison inventions. Biochemistry professor Ron Raines and coworker Dr. Kevin Desai submitted one of the six inventions selected as finalists for this year’s awards.
An independent panel selected the six finalists and awarded prizes to two winning inventions from the fiscal year's more than 370 eligible invention disclosures. The panel looked for inventions that provided exciting solutions to important problems and demonstrated great potential for...
The Louis V. Avioli Founders Award honors an ASBMR member for fundamental contributions to bone and mineral basic research.
Congratulations Dr. Pike.
The award recognizes young investigators who submit top-ranking abstracts to the 2012 ASBMR annual Meeting.
The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Award will be given annually to a scientist who encourages effective teaching and learning of biochemistry and molecular biology through his/her own teaching, leadership in education, writing, educational research, mentoring or public enlightenment.
Ivan Rayment has been appointed to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation named professorships in 2012.
An interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers, led by Aseem Ansari, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to fund research into creating synthetic genome "foundries."
James Ntambi has been elected to the Institute of Medicine Food and Nutrition Board. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences and is an independent, nonprofit organization that works outside of government to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision makers and the public.
Dr. J. Wesley Pike has been awarded the Career Award for Vitamin D Research at the 15th Vitamin D Workshop.
A new company co-founded by professor Raines achieves top honor in clean-energy competition
A testament to a forward-thinking collaboration between the sciences and arts.
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