CEO
Brad Schwartz, MD
Brad Schwartz is Carl E. Gulbrandsen CEO Chair of the Morgridge Institute for Research, a private, nonprofit research institute dedicated to interdisciplinary biomedical research in partnership with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Schwartz is a physician-scientist whose research and clinical activities focus on hemostasis, and who has a deep commitment to the mission of public research universities.
Administrative Leadership
Kathi Stanek
Chief Financial and Operating Officer
Stanek is responsible for managing the Institute’s financial and business operations, including strategic planning, treasury, investments, human resources, building operations, information systems, security, and compliance.
Bill Swisher
Chief Development Officer
Swisher is responsible for leading the fundraising team and all activities that aim to cultivate philanthropic support for the Morgridge Institute mission.
Brian Mattmiller
Chief Communications and Engagement Officer
Mattmiller leads a comprehensive communications program, including online and print assets, media relations, marketing and social media to advance the institute’s biomedical research and science outreach mission.
Steven Brezinski
General Counsel
Brezinski is the Morgridge’s General Counsel and provides legal advice regarding contracts, governance matters, tax, compliance and financial issues and the multitude of other matters that arise in the operation of the Institute.
Scientific Leadership
Paul Ahlquist
Virology
Ahlquist, director of the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Center for Research in Virology is a professor of oncology, molecular virology and plant pathology.
Brian Bockelman
Research Computing
Bockelman, a principal investigator in research computing, is enabling high-throughput research computing to facilitate leading-edge science across the Morgridge Institute, UW–Madison and beyond.
Jason Cantor
Metabolism
Cantor, a principal investigator in the Morgridge Metabolism Theme, an assistant professor of biochemistry and affiliate in biomedical engineering, studies how environmental factors impact metabolic regulation in regards to cancer and immunology.
Joshua Coon
Metabolism
Coon develops and applies mass spectrometric technology to answer fundamental questions in cell biology and to study human diseases including Alzheimer’s, diabetes, heart failure, cancer, obesity, asthma, among several others.
Daniela Drummond-Barbosa
Regenerative Biology
Drummond-Barbosa is interested in fundamental questions about how tissues develop from stem cells, how fertility is controlled, and how the physiology of an organism connects to the reproduction.
Kevin Eliceiri
Biomedical Imaging
Eliceiri, a principal investigator in the Morgridge Biomedical Imaging Theme, is director of the Fab Lab and UW–Madison Laboratory for Computational and Optical Instrumentation where he designs and develops engineering solutions to address biomedical challenges.
Jing Fan
Metabolism
Fan, a principal investigator in the Morgridge Metabolism Theme and an assistant professor of nutritional sciences, studies the metabolism of cancer.
Anthony Gitter
Virology
Gitter, a principal investigator in the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Center for Research in Virology and assistant professor of biostatistics and medical informatics, designs algorithms to connect experimental data to study cancer and viruses.
Timothy Grant
Virology
Grant, a principal investigator in the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Center for Research in Virology and an assistant professor of biochemistry, develops and applies new methods for improved imaging and image analysis by cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM).
Miron Livny
Research Computing
Livny is Chief Technology Officer of the Morgridge Institute and the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and leads the Morgridge Core Computational Technology research area.
Phil Newmark
Regenerative Biology
Newmark, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and professor of integrative biology, is a principal investigator and the Burnell R. Roberts Chair in Regenerative Biology at the Morgridge Institute.
Pilar Ossorio
Bioethics
Ossorio, professor of law and bioethics, serves as the inaugural Morgridge Bioethics Scholar-in-Residence.
Melissa Skala
Biomedical Imaging
Skala, a principal investigator in the Morgridge Biomedical Imaging Theme and professor of biomedical engineering, develops new methods and technologies to understand and combat cancer.
Ron Stewart
Bioinformatics
Stewart, the assistant director of Morgridge Bioinformatics, creates and utilizes sophisticated algorithms for analyzing high-throughput biological data.
James Thomson
Regenerative Biology
Thomson, the John D. MacArthur Professor in medicine and public health and pioneer in stem cell science, directs the Morgridge Regenerative Biology Theme.