A leading researcher in genetic risk factors with a focus in cardiovascular disease, Dr. Lo Sardo shares some of her trajectory and research.
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Student Highlight: Ting Jin – Using machine learning to find meaning in the noise
Ting Jin, a Ph.D. student developing interpretable machine learning models, explains her research and shares what she learned during her time at UW.
Canine solution: how dog genetics is influencing human medicine
Dr. Peter Muir explains why some dog breeds are more vulnerable to disease and how this knowledge can improve human medicine
Dr. Moriah Katt – From metallurgy to neurodegenerative diseases
Postdoc Moriah Katt explains how material science influenced her research on the brain
Genome-wide CRISPR screening hits its stride on campus
As genome-wide CRISPR screening is now widely accessible to researchers on Campus, three UW-Madison experts share their experiences with CRISPR screens, how it revolutionized scientific discovery, and what researchers who are considering incorporating the technology should know.
UW–Madison receives NIH grant to study how genetic variation alters human genome function
A National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) grant awarded to UW Madison is one of 25 awards made to institutions as part of a flagship consortium to understand human genomic variation
Ovarian cancer genomics specialist returns to UW
Having trained at UW-Madison, Dr. Jessica Lang simply couldn’t stay away. She returns as an Assistant Professor with deep expertise in chromatin dysfunction in ovarian and other cancers.
Team research presents a new approach for Summer Undergraduate Research Programs
Six summer undergrads in the Biomedical Data Science Summer Research Opportunity Program overcame pandemic restrictions through a unique team-science research experience.
Leading-edge consent process will benefit UW genomics researchers and patients
UW Carbone Cancer Center is piloting a new front-door patient consent process that will make genomic and clinical data more readily available to UW researchers for broad translational advances.
Going Spatial: New transcriptomics technology arrives at UW-Madison.
A new partnership between the UW-Madison Biotechnology Center and the Lab in Translational Research Initiatives (TRIP) in Pathology is bringing spatial genomics to UW researchers, revealing new views of cell-to-cell signaling, tissue organization, markers for disease, and more.