Department of Oncology
Where are you from and what’s your previous training? I am originally from Kolkata, West Bengal, in India, but being a military brat, I have lived everywhere in India except in Kolkata. I completed my B.Sc. (Honors) in Forensic Science at Amity University, where I gained foundational knowledge in biotechnology, forensic genetics, and toxicology. Fell …
We are delighted to announce that McArdle Laboratory Assistant Professor Kinjal Majumder has been awarded a 2025 Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator Award. Dr. Majumder was selected by the American Society for Virology (ASV), and the award was presented at the 2025 ASV Annual Meeting recently held in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Majumder is an expert in …
Where are you from and what’s your previous training? I am from Elk River, Minnesota (about 40 minutes north of the Twin Cities). I went to undergrad at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota in Winona, MN where I worked on the TBX2 transcription factor and its role in breast cancer. I also did a summer …
McArdle researcher Renee King, PhD, CCC-SLP, has been awarded a prestigious NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Dr. King, a postdoctoral trainee in Dr. Paul Lambert’s laboratory, studies laryngeal papillomavirus infection and related disease. Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is caused by chronic papillomavirus infections of …
Monday, June 9, 2025 11:00 AM Frontiers in Proteomics Seminar: Decoding Life’s Melody: Proteomic Technologies Illuminating Disease Networks and Diagnostics; Speaker: Yu-Ju Chen, PhD, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica. Join in person: 1335 HSLC Tuesday, June 10, 2025 N/A Wednesday, June 11, 2025 3:00 PM RNA Collaborative Seminar: mRNA stabilization by chemical …
Monday, June 2, 2025 12:00 PM Problems in Precision Medicine and Genomics: WiscShare: A Framework for Optimizing Use of Human-Derived Biospecimens in Biomedical Research; Speaker: Stephanie McGregor, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof. (CHS), VC of Clinical and Translational Research, Dir. Of Translational Science Biocore, UW–Madison. Join in person: 2798 West Wedge Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/99776513436?pwd=E7uqjiCYLmJ0OvoXLGwq6OEtF4eCpe.1 (Meeting …
McArdle professor Caroline Alexander has been intrigued by observations that connect the properties of skin with a switch of metabolism that promotes metabolic health. This healthy metabolic status has been described for decades—principally in response to calorie restriction. For example, humans are among a huge range of organisms that respond to reduced calorie intake with …
Monday, May 19, 2025 12:00 PM Precision Medicine Seminar: Clinical interpretation of variants in the BRCA2 cancer predisposition gene; Speaker: Fergus J. Couch, PhD, Prof. of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Mayo Clinic. Join in person: 2798 WIMR West Wedge Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94806573353?pwd=p2JDBPbelaAIDgQw6LvIZbv6TTOA8p.1 (Meeting ID: 948 0657 3353, Passcode: 013032) 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: …
Monday, May 12, 2025 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: CARM1 and PARP1: Unraveling the molecular interactions governing DNA repair and genomic stability; Speaker: Mason McGuire (Advisor: Wei Xu, PhD); Microenvironmental factors that influence metastasis in High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer (HGSOC); Speaker: Larkin Clem (Advisor: Pam Kreeger, PhD). Join in person: 6571 WIMR II Tuesday, …
The UW–Madison Office of the Provost has announced that McArdle Professor Wei Xu is one of 14 UW–Madison professors to receive the 2025 Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award. This prestigious award recognizes research and teaching excellence and provides research funding (through the generosity of the William F. Vilas Estate) for three years. Dr. Xu, the Marian …