Guelay Bilen-Rosas is the director of Pediatric Transplant Anesthesia at UW Health and an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the School of Medicine and Public Health, focusing on pediatric transplant and airway management. The research …
Innovator Profiles
Innovator Profile: Paul Mross
Yoga is among the most ancient practices in the world of holistic health and wellness. That’s why the innovation embodied in the Happ:y Mat (an adaptation of a traditional yoga mat for use in clinical …
Innovator Profile: Kattia Jiménez
2018 was a year of change for Kattia Jiménez—it’s the year she left her full-time travel position with the Centers for Disease Control and began her new academic appointment at UW–Madison’s All of Us Research …
Innovator Profile: Kit Chow and Aditya Singh-Parihar
UPDATE April 2022: Where are they now? Boosted Chews has ceased its operations, but both founders have found new innovations to tackle: Kit Chow is now Director of Business Development at Internship on Demand, a …
Innovator profile: Melissa Skala
Melissa Skala is a UW–Madison professor of biomedical engineering and an investigator with the Morgridge Institute where she leads the Optical Microscopy in Medicine Lab. Her lab uses photonics-based imaging technologies to develop personalized treatment …
Innovator Profile: Paolo Desiati and Elena D’Onghia
Friends and collaborators Paolo Desiati and Elena D’Onghia don’t work on the same issues in their different roles at UW–Madison, but they share a passion for solving big problems. Together, they are developing magnetic shield …
Innovator Profile: Ben Winters
UW–Madison alum Ben Winters ‘20 and his co-founder Jake Levitt worked with D2P to help launch FoodChain during the last year of Ben’s undergraduate degree program in the School of Business. Their idea was to …
UW–Madison student and co-founder of Blexx featured on podcast
This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: The Podcast” features Erin Tenderholt, founder of a Madison-based startup called Blexx. Tenderholt has created a new patent-pending technology in hopes of improving how people dispose of hypodermic needles. “This …
D2P Interview: Kreg Gruben, Clinical Therapy Innovator
At 4:30 on a Saturday morning, when most other people are blissfully enjoying the opportunity to sleep in, Kreg Gruben lies awake with an idea to fix a problem, and not an easy one at …
D2P Interview: Lisa Frank, VR Specialist
Lisa Frank first began working on Wonder three years ago when she, as a Master of Fine Arts candidate, was granted a semester to create an exhibit at the CAVE in the Wisconsin Institutes for …