The reinvention of a photographic film company has transformed a pioneering stem cell startup into a biotech leader with an eye toward regenerative medicine and drug discovery. The former Cellular Dynamics International Inc., with deep …
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Small miracle: Stem cells drive research and entrepreneurship in Madison
In 1998, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers made waves in the worlds of biology and medicine, revealing they had five examples of human embryonic stem cells — biological building blocks at the foundation of cellular development …
Applications for Transcend UW’s Student Innovation Competition Open
Transcend Madison’s Innovation Competition is a student-led effort to bring students all across UW–Madison together to demonstrate their novel ideas and creations. The event was created by Transcend UW, a student organization focused on providing …
UW Med School Leads the Way in Commercializing Research
Robert Golden, dean of the UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health for the past dozen years, leaned into the question as if he wanted no doubt to exist on where he stood. We were …
Social Impact Initiative Competition Announced
StartingBlock, in partnership with the American Family Institute and Associated Bank, seeks the best and brightest social impact entrepreneurs to join us as part of a brand-new Social Impact Initiative at StartingBlock. Members of this …
UW–Madison Among Schools Producing the Most Startups
As college students across the country settle in to another semester of classes, America’s next generation of entrepreneurs are getting the wisdom and tools they need to one day launch the next hit startup. Of …
Water Council Launches Competitions for Water Technology Innovators
The Water Council is sponsoring several challenges designed to identify cutting-edge freshwater technologies and ideas with high potential for commercialization or implementation. A series of Tech Challenges will run throughout the year, and each Challenge …
Applications Due for WARF’s Free UpStart Program
It takes more than a good idea to start a successful business. WARF’s free UpStart program for women and people of color looking to develop entrepreneurial skills can help. The WARF UpStart program delivers the …
UW researchers, students partner with with local brewing company
Nowadays many people don’t enjoy their beer warm, but for most of the past couple thousand years, warm beer was the norm, according to Kirby Nelson, a brewmaster at the Wisconsin Brewing Company. After all, …
UW’s Challenge
It’s a story that Madison loves to hear. Two plucky entrepreneurs, Kevin Conroy and Manesh Arora, are hired in 2009 to revive a moribund health-tech startup in Boston. They have the temerity to move it …