By mimicking Nature's way of distinguishing one type of cell from another, University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists now report they can more effectively seek out and kill cancer cells while sparing healthy ones.
Theresa Pillar is being honored with College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Classified Staff Recognition Award.
Sam Butcher is the recipient of the UW-College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Pound Research Award.
ACS Chemical Biology, edited by Laura Kiessling, has won the 2006 Award for Innovation in Journal Publishing from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers, The association is the national trade association of the U.S. book publishing industry, including more than 300 major commercial publishers, small publishers, non-profits, university presses and scholarly societies.
The journal was also the runner-up for the R.R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Professional, Reference or Scholarly Work of 2006
The MIT Club of Wisconsin, a state association for alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is recognizing a University of Wisconsin-Madison based spinoff company..
The club will recognize Quintessence Biopharmaceuticals of Madison, a company that grew out of the advances of UW-Madison chemistry and biochemistry professors Laura Kiessling and Ron Raines. Quintessence is an early-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on development of human therapeutics.
Six mid-career UW-Madison faculty have been recognized for their research accomplishments through conferral of Kellett Mid-Career Awards.
Congratulations Dr. Amasino
The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences is leading efforts to bring a new federal bioenergy research and development center to Wisconsin, the college's dean told a group of bioscience industry leaders today.
Matt Allen from the Raines and Kiessling labs is one of the first 58 recipients of the new NIH Pathways to Independence award.
Professor Judith Kimble is among the 449 scientists and engineers to be awarded a fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which were announced this week (Nov. 23).
Laura Kiessling has won the 2005 Harrison Howe Award, a prize that annually honors outstanding contributions to the field of chemistry.
The death of Jack Gorski on August 30, 2006 took a brilliant but modest investigator, an effective teacher, and a practical dairyman from this community.
Professor Ronald R. Raines has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
ASV, the largest virology society in the World, has elected Dr. Palmenberg as their president. Her term will begin July 2007.
Mary Rabaglia, researcher in the Department of Biochemistry, Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research (Research Support). Rabaglia, a nationally known expert in pancreatic beta cell biology, has served as a well-respected researcher in the Alan Attie lab in the Department of Biochemistry for the past eight years.
Douglas B. Weibel received his B.S. (Chemistry) degree from the University of Utah, a M.S. (Organic Chemistry) degree form Cornell University and then completed his Ph.D. (Organic Chemistry) work with Jerrold Meinwald at Cornell University. Since 2002 he has been a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University with George M. Whitesides. Doug's research interests are in the area of organic chemistry and micro- and nano-fabricated materials to explore microbiology and cell biology.
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