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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 …
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 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.
Congratulations to Muhammed Murtaza who was recently awarded a three-year, $1 million Exploratory/Developmental Cooperative Agreement Phase II (UH3) Award from the National Cancer Institute. The grant will support his study titled “Treatment monitoring in early and locally advanced breast cancer using circulating tumor DNA analysis.” Read more.
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 …
Dr. Jeremy Kratz was awarded a Career Development Award for his research on the translation of patient-derived cancer organoids in cholangiocarcinoma. The VA’s Career Development Program was established to provide mentoring for junior researchers so they can learn from renowned, experienced VA researchers. Awardees from this program are recognized as national and international leaders in …
Dr. Lang was awarded the New Investigator Program award from The Wisconsin Partnership Program (WPP). The grants were awarded to eight SMPH investigators for projects across the spectrum of basic, clinical, and translational research. Dr. Lang’s project, titled “Functional and Genomic Comparison of Ovarian Cancer Cells in Ascites to Primary Tumor and Associated Cell-free DNA”, …
February 25 through 28 marked Rare Disease Week on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Hosted by Rare Disease Legislative Advocates, a program of the EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases, it is a weeklong event that invites rare disease advocates from across the country to come to talk to their congressional representatives and senators. Bryn Webb, MD, associate professor, …