biochemistry

siRNA screening of the cell cycle with two dynamic GFP sensors (from Discovery Matters Issue 1, July 2005)

... intelligence portend powerful functional cellular biochemistry tools. J. Cell. Biochem. Suppl. 39 , 194–210 (2002). 11. Thomas, N. Lighting the circle of life: fluorescent sensors for covert surveillance of the cell cycle. Cell Cycle 2 (6), 545–549 (2003). 12...

UW-Eau Claire wins $500,000 federal science grant

...e their academic programs. Science majors include biochemistry and molecular biology, biology, chemistry, computer science and software engineering, geology, physics, and pre-engineering. Dr. Michael Howe, associate professor of mathematics and author of the grant proposal, said scholars will receive scholarshi...

Father of life patents downplays historic role

... on Biotechnology. Chakrabarty, who has a Ph.D in biochemistry from Calcutta University , is now a distinguished professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago , and he has founded two companies involved in the very industry he helped ignite. His biotech firms are CDG Therapeutics, which has secured five pate...

UW-Madison has 7 Sloan research fellows, top in nation

...ng." Julie C. Mitchell , assistant professor of biochemistry and mathematics. Mitchell's research will develop an integrated analytical platform for the functional discovery of novel neural peptides. Frank Petriello , assistant professor of physics. He will collide beams of protons at the highest energies ...

Scientists find way to make human collagen in lab

..." says Ronald T. Raines, a UW-Madison professor of biochemistry who, with postdoctoral fellow Frank W. Kotch, authored the new PNAS study. Scientists have been seeking a way to make synthetic collagen for at least 30 years. In clinical settings, human collagen would be preferred over bovine collagen because the...

Biomedical alliance marks first full year

...rics Biomedical imaging Genetics, proteomics and biochemistry Bioinformatics and medical informatics Going forward, the Biomedical Technology Alliance is looking to host further collaborative seminars, seek additional funding and work on both infrastructure development and branding of southeast Wisconsin as a...

UW-Madison awarded $20 million grant for protein research

...ly entering Phase II. Brian Fox , a professor of biochemistry at UW-Madison and one of the group's principal investigators, said the grant will be used over the next five years to support the center's research group of 30 scientists. They will be using this second wave of funding to practice their technologies ...

Biotech industry reaches midpoint in 50-year maturation cycle

...ft in research focus. Where molecular biology and biochemistry were the focal point, the new emphasis is cell, developmental and system biology with greater interest in both stem cell therapy and cell-based therapies. This new emphasis will be combined with genomics, proteomics and nanotechnology with the resul...

UW-Madison picks scalable SGI computer to simulate weather

...ar, JRT sold two 12-processor Altix systems to the biochemistry department. I think CIMSS was looking for a turn-key solution that could be up in running in a timely fashion, that would not require a lot of man hours for administration, said Stefanie Rogers, account executive at JRT's Minnesota office. Rogers wo...

An Argentine biotechman in Wisconsin

...enos Aires. He became associate professor of plant biochemistry at the same university. He finally became professor of phytochemistry and professor and chairman of the Department of Organic Chemistry. In 1983 with the return of democracy to Argentina, he became the director of Argentina's National Research Counc...

Cancer treatment advances as trials show no harm to mice

...hnology created by Ronald Raines , a professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a company founder. The technology, patented by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and licensed to the company, allows certain human digestive proteins to be converted into powerful anti-cancer agents. ...

The birth of biotech: San Francisco, Boston, Geneva or Chicago?

...e University of Chicago to complete a doctorate in biochemistry after the war ended. In 1952, he took a job at Argonne Cancer Research Hospital (which later became part of the University of Chicago hospital system). Goldwasser was reunited with renowned hematologist Leon Jacobson who challenged him to identify t...

Interview with Medical College of Wisconsin Research Foundation's new director of marketing and licensing

...profit margins that he started while working as a biochemistry graduate student at Wayne State University in D...it. Clark's Ph.D. research involved studying the biochemistry of a fish called Fundulus heteroclitus in an attempt to learn more about the way cancer cells metast...

Deltanoid named to top-15 list of biotech companies

...y millions and helped it build a new $35.6 million biochemistry building. According to a Deltanoid statement, the products of his research have been sold worldwide for revenues totalling about $5 billion under brand names such as Alfarol and Zemplar. FDA approval for the osteoporosis treatment will be many tria...

Five seed-stage funding groups filling Midwest Life Science void

...he renowned inventor and professor and chairman of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Deluca could be called the Alex Zaffaroni (the famed founder of Syntex, Alza and numerous other companies) of the Midwest. His products are at the heart of Bone Care International (whose lead commercialized p...

DeLuca speaks out on entrepreneurialism, tech transfer, and WARF

...ing in the lobby of UW Madison's new $35.6 million biochemistry building. Patents numbered 3,565,924 and 3,697,559 were issued to Hector Floyd DeLuca and colleagues back in 1971 and 1972 for their work on derivatives of vitamin D3. Those patents are responsible for the money that built this building," DeLuca s...

Quintessence Biosciences forms cancer therapeutic advisory board

...ra L. Kiessling, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UW-Madison and co-founder of Quintessence Biosc...ences, Inc. Ronald T. Raines, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and chemistry at UW-Madison, co-founder of Quintessence Biosciences, Inc. and inventor of the EVade ...

Life Science: From Chicago to the Twin Cities: All tech roads lead to Wisconsin

... Center addition, a microbial sciences building, a biochemistry building upgrade and an interdisciplinary biology building. Of the $318 million in total spending, $158 million will come from the state of Wisconsin and its taxpayers. A related project is HealthStar, which began in 1996. The latest health sciences ...

DHEA Boosts Growth Rate of Human Neural Stem Cells

...plains. In previous studies, Lardy, with Wisconsin biochemistry colleagues James Ntambi and Brian Fox, showed that DHEA blocked a step in fat synthesis. "The effects of DHEA on brain stem cells is a completely new finding," says Lardy. "The problem of whether DHEA itself is having this effect, or if there's anot...

Researchers Push for Faster Drug Development

...the future, said Millis, who received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from UW-Madison. It will first of all hopefully decrease the time from drug identification to a new molecular entity on the market, and it will also increase the probability that the identified compound will actually act as a drug in vivo. Mattys no...

Quintessence Secures Financing

...development of new products based on chemistry and biochemistry advancements discovered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is licensed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). It has developed newly patented technologies that will enable more effective drugs to be created and therapies against ...