In his village of Koumea in Togo, Africa, 8-year-old Hezouwe Walada watched nearly half of his community—including three of his young cousins—die of malaria in early 2000. He decided then and there he wanted to …
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Wright Lab member serves on Microscopy Society Student Council
Graduate students attend multiple conferences during their educational careers. But after his first successful trip to the Microscopy Society of America (MSA) conference, Joseph Kim decided to get more involved and was recently named Communications …
Senior adds prestigious Marshall Scholarship to string of academic honors
Biochemistry and mathematics major Claire Evensen will graduate this spring with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and mathematics, with comprehensive honors (honors in biochemistry and in the liberal arts). Evensen has won a Marshall Scholarship.
Biochemistry and medical training leads to exciting career in oncology research and development
Biochemistry is the foundation of what Kevin Sokolowski does every day in his career. Armed with an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, as well as an M.D., he has embarked on …
Kirchdoerfer joins department, campus virology community to utilize cryo-EM technologies
Robert Kirchdoerfer is returning to UW–Madison as an assistant professor. His position in the Institute for Molecular Virology is part of a cluster hire. Kirchdoerfer studies coronaviruses.
Coyle, Weeks join biochemistry to investigate molecular machines, proteome
Amy Weeks and Scott Coyle, two new assistant professors in the Department of Biochemistry, will work to understand cells and even smaller molecular machines.
Biochemistry alumnus combines interest in science, humanities in career as patent agent
Dan Blasiole, a Ph.D. alum of the biochemistry department and the Attie Lab, now works at a law firm in Madison, Wisconsin.
Biochemistry undergraduate earns 2019 Goldwater Scholarship
Biochemistry major Claire Evensen was one of just three University of Wisconsin–Madison undergraduates to receive a prestigious 2019 Barry Goldwater Scholarship for undergraduate excellence in the sciences.
UW changes lives: Campus-born fertility company seeks to improve women’s health care, Wisconsin economy
What started as a side project in a laboratory in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Biochemistry is now a successful Wisconsin startup that’s closer than ever to giving women a way to easily track their hormone levels and help overcome difficulties conceiving a child.
Forgotten molecules: The fruits of an emeritus professor’s 40-year career are contributing to the modern search for new medications
In the complicated process of drug discovery, scientists screen large collections of molecules in search of a range of properties that indicate they could be used as antibiotic, antifungal, or anticancer agents, or even neurological drugs. When compared to the types of molecules synthesized for drug discovery today, the old-school way in which biochemistry emeritus professor Laurens Anderson’s molecules were made gives them some unique properties, so they are taking on new significance.