University of Wisconsin–Madison

Author: jlahlstrom

2025 UW Science Expeditions – Campus Open House

  Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine staff had fun vounteering at our booth at the 2025 UW Science Expeditions – Campus Open House earlier this month. Save the date for UW Science Expeditions – Campus Open House 2026: April 10th – 12th

Rare Disease Day Television News Coverage

February 28th 2025 was National Rare Disease Day with several local stations covering the impact of Rare Diseases and the work of the Undiagnosed Disease Program. ABC WKOW 27 | Madison, WI WIFR News | Rockford, IL CBS58 | Milwaukee, WI  

After 14 years of searching family has diagnosis for son’s rare condition

MADISON, Wis. – Imagine experiencing your child born seemingly healthy, but then struggle to grow, walk, learn or talk – and not be able to tell what is causing it. Danelle McGuire felt this despair for 14 years. Her son Treyson Wallace was born in May 2009, after a normal pregnancy, McGuire said, but soon …

Congratulations to Murtaza and Michelle Stephens of the Center for Precision Medicine Awarded the first 2024 WARF Innovation Award for their work, Simplifying the Process for Early Detection, Screening of Cancer

By Jen Ahlstrom The first 2024 WARF Innovation Award has been awarded to Muhammed Murtaza, Director of the Center for Precision Medicine and associate professor of surgery, and Michelle Stephens, surgery researcher in the Murtaza lab within the Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine, for their work, Simplifying the Process for Early Detection, Screening …

Congratulations to Jessica Lang on the publication of “Super-enhancers and efficacy of triptolide in small cell carcinoma of the ovary hypercalcemic type”

Congratulations to Jessica Lang on the recent publication of “Super-enhancers and efficacy of triptolide in small cell carcinoma of the ovary hypercalcemic type” in iScience: A Cell Press open access journal.  Full article available here.