Gumperz's paper "iNKT cells coordinate immune pathways to enable human immune engraftment in non-conditioned hosts" was published as part of Life Science Alliance's Volume 4 Number 7....
Supported by a K01 Special Emphasis Research Career Award (SERCA) grant (K01OD020153) from ORIP, Dr. Pan is investigating mechanistic questions of how a transcriptional repressor protein, Yin Yang 1 (YY1), controls hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) self-renewal and differentiation. The award, she explained, has supported her...
Peiman Hematti, is the director of Clinical Hematopoietic Cell Processing Laboratory at UW-Madison, lab received word from FACT – the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy – that the lab had received certification to do “more than minimal cell manipulation.” “This is a big...
Congratulations to the Pan team for their new publication in Development on unveiling a new mechanism underlying early T-cell development!...
Vu Tran, M. Eng., a graduate student in Emery Bresnick's lab launched the inaugural WBCRI trainee journal club. A monthly club for trainees from WBCRI member's labs to come together and discuss recent, novel discoveries in blood cancer research publications. ...
Selected from more than 400 innovation disclosures, two University of Wisconsin-Madison teams working at the frontiers of cancer immunotherapy and bioengineering have taken top honors from WARF. The 2020 WARF Innovation Award winners are: Jenny Gumperz and Dana Baiu (medical microbiology & immunology) for their work,...
Congratulations to Christian Capitini, MD, Kenneth DeSantes, MD, Amy Erbe-Gurel, PhD, Jacquelyn Hank, PhD, Anna Huttenlocher, MD, Mario Otto, MD, PhD, Alexander Rakhmilevich, MD, PhD, Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, and researchers at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center who were recently recognized with the...
In July, Emery Bresnick and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health introduced the Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute, which will build collaborative research programs with existing and new faculty members. The goal is to further study what makes blood cancers tick and to...
Congratulations to Igor, Anna and their teams for their new publication in Stem Cell Reports on generating neutrophils from induced pluripotent cells....
Xuan has built a nationally/internationally recognized program as a physician-scientist with important clinical contributions to canine oncology and an R01-funded basic/translational science program on hematopoiesis. Congratulations Xuan!...