We are saddened to share that Donata Oertel, PhD, Mary Herman and Lucien Rubinstein Distinguished Chair of Neuroscience, passed away on April 22, 2020 after a prolonged illness. She was a member of the faculty …
Month: April 2020
An Exciting Development, CRISPR Lets UW-Madison Researchers Edit Genes
On a crisp, sunny February afternoon in Kris Saha’s lab in Madison, doctoral candidate in biomedical engineering Nicole Piscopo put a petri dish of cells underneath a high-powered microscope. The cells, which were gene-edited to …
Aicha Quamine Wins NSF-GRFP Award!
Congratulations to CMB student Aicha Quamine who was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for 2020! The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding, early-career graduate students who are pursuing …