Advancing research, education, and clinical practice in precision medicine
By Jen Ahlstrom The Center for Precision Medicine is pleased to share that Dr. Muhammed Murtaza, Director, along with core faculty members Dr. Jeremy Kratz and Dr. Irene Ong, will be presenting at the upcoming Advancing Precision Oncology Education Series in Madison, Wisconsin. This one-day event, titled 10 Years of Excellence in Wisconsin Precision Oncology, celebrates a decade …
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 …
Dr. Irene Ong has recently been promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology with a joint appointment in Biostatistics and Medical Informatics. Her research interests lie in data mining, artificial intelligence, machine learning, probabilistic methods, dynamical models, inductive logic programming, and statistical relational learning with applications to biological …
Muhammed Murtaza, MBBS, PhD, Associate Professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology has become the next director of the Center for Precision Medicine as the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Murtaza is a cancer researcher and an associate professor in the Department of Surgery at the School. Since 2021, he has …
This year’s Gerard B. Odell Award winner is Bryn Webb, MD, associate professor, Division of Genetics and Metabolism. She is also associated as core faculty with the UW Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine. Webb’s research group is focused on better understanding the genetics and pathophysiology of rare Mendelian disorders. She has a particular interest …