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Precision Medicine – Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

WEBPrecision Medicine. Precision medicine is an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person. The approach will allow doctors and researchers to predict more accurately which treatment and prevention strategies for a particular disease

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Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

WEBFaculty areas of expertise include biostatistics applied to pre-clinical, clinical and population health research; biomedical and clinical informatics; and statistical genetics and genomics. The Department maintains strong ties …

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Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

WEBCONTACT US Discovery Building Suite 3120 330 N Orchard St Madison, WI 53715 608-316-4339

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CRISPR Vision Program

WEBWelcome to the CRISPR Vision Program! Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), we're innovating non-viral gene editing therapies for inherited retinal disorders. Our work aims to bring the groundbreaking potential of CRISPR technology to those affected by these diseases. We're pushing the frontiers of gene editing technology.

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Scientists Create Road Map to Metabolic Reprogramming for Aging

WEBScientists Create Road Map to Metabolic Reprogramming for Aging. November 29, 2012 -omics, epigenetics. In efforts to understand what influences life span, cancer and aging, scientists are building road maps to navigate and learn about cells at the molecular level. To survey previously uncharted territory, a team of WID and …

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School of Nursing – Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

WEBAs an integral academic partner situated in the health sciences sector of campus with the School of Medicine and Public Health and the School of Pharmacy, the School of Nursing collaborates with scientists and renowned researchers across the UW–Madison campus, the nation, and the world. The school’s research is translational in nature and

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Department of Biomolecular Chemistry – Wisconsin Institute for …

WEBDepartment of Biomolecular Chemistry. The Department of Biomolecular Chemistry (BMC) in the School of Medicine and Public Health has been at the forefront of biochemical research for over 90 years. The department is sited in new facilities in the center of the UW-Madison campus and is fully integrated with the other basic science departments in

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vizHOME Paper Wins Award for Phase I of Home Health Study

WEBThe vizHOME team in the Living Environments Lab (LEL) has undertaken a 5-year, 5-part study to explore how the context of the home impacts how people manage their health information. As people are increasingly tasked with their own home health management, the vizHOME project is using intensive interviews alongside specialized …

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Imagining a Healthier Future – Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

WEBCONTACT US Discovery Building Suite 3120 330 N Orchard St Madison, WI 53715 608-316-4339

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Multidisciplinary Team Maps Costs of Participating in Health

WEBFollowing the Supreme Court’s recent decision to uphold the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, health care systems around the country are looking more closely at participating in Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) — networks that share patients’ medical data across multiple hospitals and clinics, and improve coordination of …

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Complex Systems – Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

WEBComplex Systems. The world is made up of complex systems, from power grids and neural networks to fish migration and microbial communities. Researchers at WID work to characterize, model, and understand such systems to make advances in medicine, agriculture, technology, the environment, and more.

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WID Research Labs – Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

WEBWID Research Labs. WID’s research portfolio is broad and interconnected, encompassing faculty and students in more than two dozen departments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Individual labs form the foundation of WID’s research activities and provide the groundwork for the collaborative community that gives rise to innovation and

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WID Team Probes Home Health Environments with Virtual Reality

WEBAfter health experts study commonalities among the homes, they plan to digitize objects and furniture into 3-D representations that can be moved and rearranged to create variations of the same room. Then, researchers will conduct studies with a new group of participants unfamiliar with the home who are either diagnosed with diabetes or …

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Featured Science – Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

WEBA new publication from the Xuehua Zhong’s group at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and the genetics department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison clarifies an important epigenetic mechanism in plants that will help researchers better understand the epigenomes of both plants and animals. More. Featured Science.

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Gut’s Microbial Community Shown to Influence Host Gene …

WEBThe study, which was led by Kimberly Krautkramer, an MD/Ph.D. student in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, revealed key differences in gene regulation in conventionally raised mice and mice raised in a germ-free environment. The mice were provided with two distinct diets: one rich in plant carbohydrates similar to fruits and

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Federal Earmark Expands Student-led Search for New Antibiotics

WEBThe Wisconsin-based, global effort is slated to receive $1 million to expand and reach more students. “This type of investment provides so many benefits! It provides a direct pathway for students at any college to become scientists and expand the search for new antibiotics,” says Sarah Miller, Director of Tiny Earth at UW–Madison.

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Laura Knoll – Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

WEBWe are also interested in the role of protozoans in gut health. In generating a mouse model for these protozoans, we found that mice deficient in Z-DNA binding protein-1 (ZBP-1-/-) can be orally colonized and complete the lifecycle of these human protozoans, including fecal cyst shedding. Because the mouse model for the global pathogen

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Susan Thibeault – Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

WEBhealth care; microbiome; tissue engineering; 5103 WIMR Madison WI 53715 Preferred pronouns: she/her/hers Joined WID: 2020 [email protected]. Vocal fold mucosa biology in health and disease About. Susan Thibeault was born and raised in Canada. She moved to the US to pursue graduate school.

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Sticking to Success: Unveiling the Surface-Adhesion Superpowers …

WEBCritical for plant health, Flavobacterium promotes plant nutrient uptake, increases stress tolerance, and disease suppression by outcompeting or inhibiting the growth of harmful pathogens. Learning why this bacterium is successful at colonizing surfaces, particularly in the rhizosphere, could pave the way for advances in agriculture …

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LEL’s Brennan Named to Lead National Library of Medicine

WEBDr. Patricia Flatley Brennan. Patricia Flatley Brennan, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of nursing and industrial engineering and theme leader of the Living Environments Lab at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery has been named the fourth director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest biomedical library. …

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Emile Gluck-Thaler – Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

WEBPlant and animal health outcomes are shaped through diverse interactions with microbes. Yet predicting the outcomes of these interactions is a major challenge because even closely related microbes often interact with their hosts in completely different ways. The long-term goal of our lab is to understand the forces that maintain and promote

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Tools for Discovery: Kevin Ponto

WEBApril 9, 2015 September 10, 2020 creativity, health care, software, virtual reality, visualization. Kevin Ponto. Kevin Ponto is an Assistant Professor of Design Studies and a faculty member in the Living Environments Lab. He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, his M.S. from the University of

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