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 …
Biotechnology
Randolph Ashton and Gavin Knight
Randolph Ashton and Gavin Knight, researchers in Biomedical Engineering and the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin Madison, have developed a novel, scalable approach to bioengineer reproducible cell culture models of brain …
Faraz Choudhury and Daniel Benjamin
Faraz Choudhury and Daniel Benjamin began their work together in an electrical engineering lab as graduate students at UW–Madison. With their group, they conducted research on plasmas for semiconductor fabrication. The target of the team’s …
Bryan Bednarz
Bryan Bednarz is a UW–Madison professor in medical physics. He runs a laboratory on campus that engineers and designs technology that focuses on imaging and therapy in health care. It was in this laboratory, with …
StemPharm
Cellular Logistics
BrainXell
Immuto Scientific
Voximetry
Melissa Skala
UPDATE: Where are they now? Recently, Skala developed and validated a prototype flow cytometry system that can measure more cells in a shorter period of time. This prototype also improved automation so that users can …