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 Profiles
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
Kit Chow and Aditya Singh Parihar lived right across the hall from one another their freshman year, but they only met recently. They are both involved with Transcend UW, a student organization focused on helping …
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 …
D2P Interview: Saul Laufer, Voxxi Mobile Phone App
Saul Laufer’s Voxxi, a start-up allowing mobile phone users to maintain simultaneously several different numbers on their phone, began as a happy accident. While taking his 600-level computer science course at UW Madison, Saul conceived …