Former Morgridge Postdoctoral Fellow Finn Kuusisto was awarded for his work developing information technology to improve virtual reality applications that could one day be applied to biomedical devices.
Category: Regenerative Biology
Bernstein wraps postdoc, joins cancer research startup
After years of building tools for bioinformatics research, Morgridge Postdoctoral Fellow Matt Bernstein takes his skills to industrial cancer research.
Study sheds light on how planarians regenerate germ cells
Unlike virtually all animals, the flatworm planaria has the ability to regenerate its germ cells from anywhere in the body. The Morgridge Newmark Lab is finding the molecular footprint of this process for the first time.
New search app gleans ‘collective consciousness’ from a massive research database
For researchers looking to extract useful and relevant data from PubMed — a public database of more than 30 million biomedical research papers — Morgridge scientists have developed a simple and enticing shortcut, called KinderMiner.
James Thomson, renowned UW scientist who brought the world human embryonic stem cells, to retire in July
James Thomson, the Morgridge Institute and UW–Madison scientist who first isolated and grew human embryonic stem cells, inspiring a generation of researchers, and igniting a furious ethical debate that he would later help resolve, plans to retire after more than three decades of work in Wisconsin.