In a lab at the Wisconsin Energy Institute, UW–Madison, three scientists are working to rewrite the pharmaceutical supply chain, beginning with poplar wood. At the core of Phenolvation, a startup founded by Steven Karlen, Canan …
Agriculture/Food
Emily Bick
Farmers could soon listen to insects hidden within their crops, revealing the health of their fields without ever turning over a leaf Emily Bick, Assistant Professor of Precision Pest Ecology and Extension Specialist for Field …
Galasys Incorporated
Damon Smith, Roger Schmidt, and Teryl Schmidt
The solution to the increasingly urgent issue of crop loss has landed in the hands of farmers in the form of an app, Field Prophet. This app is designed to revolutionize crop disease management for …
Insect Eavesdropper
Erin Vranas
Business Owner Erin Vranas’ innovative spirit can be attributed to her commitment to constant learning. Being an obsessive, lifelong learner drives her to remain a forever student. It is also this trait that pushed Erin …
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 …
Kit Chow and Aditya Singh-Parihar
UPDATE: Where are they now? Boosted Chews has ceased its operations, but both founders have found new innovations to tackle: Kit Chow is a Project Manager at RehabPath, a Madison-based startup that helps make the …
Ben Winters
Note: FoodChain was aquired by the Dohmen Group in 2020. 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 …