Many conditions, like nerve pain, epilepsy, and a-fib, require costly surgeries to implant neuro-modulation therapy devices. However, thanks to recent research the future may be injecting the device, rather than surgery to implant. This new …
Engineering and the Health Highway
Sports Injury Motivates the Development of Device to Speed Up Healing From Fractures
MADISON, Wis. – University of Wisconsin-Madison Materials Science Professor Xudong Wang and his team are working on a fracture electrostimulation device (FED) to speed up the healing of fractures. The device would be implanted …
Christian Franck Comments on “Havana Syndrome” in Diplomats
MADISON, Wis. – Dr. Christian Franck of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison commented on the recent research about “Havana Syndrome” in Diplomats. It was named “Havana Syndrome” as the symptoms started with U.S. …
Applying COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain Lessons to Advanced Therapies in a Post-Pandemic World
Surges in the research, development, and supply chain capabilities for new vaccines to combat the COVID-19 pandemic may be key to accelerating clinical translation and patient access to a whole new class of advanced therapies. …
Morgidge postdoc awarded first AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship in the U.S. Department of the Treasury
Ask anyone participating in a cultural exchange: It’s helpful to know the local language. Morgridge Postdoctoral Fellow Amritava Das knows this well, and not just because he speaks five languages. His career has been defined by …
Retiring Carayon leaves legacy of healthcare systems engineering research, mentorship
Pascale Carayon’s curriculum vitae is 72 pages long, detailing the litany of awards, publications and lectures the widely respected human factors engineering scholar has accumulated over the course of her more than 30-year career. What …
Self-powered implantable device stimulates fast bone healing, then disappears without a trace
In 2017, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers broke his right collarbone in a game against the Minnesota Vikings. Typically, it takes about 12 weeks for a collarbone to fully heal, but by mid-December fans …
Ortiz, Lizeth
New initiative facilitates research partnerships with the private sector
Seven projects – from generating valuable products from the abundant non-food dairy residues that remain after milk is processed into food product, to amplifying UW–Madison doctoral trainees as the new generation of biotechnology industry leaders …
mRNA technology used in COVID vaccines now being tested to treat cancer, autoimmune diseases
MADISON, Wis. — The method used to make the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines could change the future of medicine as we know it. Researchers inside the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research have been studying the …