Department of Oncology
Jill retired in June 2020 after more than 32 years of service at UW–Madison. She recently answered some questions about her life and work at McArdle. Why did you decide to study science? As a child, our house was full of animals. My dad use to take us to the Vilas Zoo, still one of …
In honor of Capitol Bank’s 25th anniversary, they created a campaign called “$25,000 for 25 Years”, giving away $25,000 in donations during the month of October. Capitol Bank asked their 25 longest-tenured employees to each select an organization to be the recipient of a $1,000 donation. Julie Martinson selected McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research …
Being a grad student comes with challenges, and it’s important to take care of your mental health throughout your journey, and seek help doing so when you need it. According to the 2019 Healthy Minds Survey, 93% of UW–Madison graduate students do not think any less of a peer who seeks mental health care, and …
Wei Xu, PhD Professor of Oncology Marian A. Messerschmidt Professor of Cancer Research Please tell me a little about yourself. Where did you grow up? Where did you go to school? I grew up in a small city in China close to the Yangzi River. I went to Peking University for my undergraduate studies in …
Pictured: 2018 Night of Hope Annual Fundraiser Verona Area High School began the Night of Hope fundraiser fourteen years ago in honor of a beloved teacher who passed away from breast cancer in 2006. The very first Night of Hope raised money for Ms. Anne Boehm and successfully supported her and her family to take …
Dr. Megan Spurgeon (left) and Dr. Paul Lambert (right) McArdle researchers have developed a model of papillomavirus sexual transmission using the recently discovered murine (mouse) papillomavirus. This new model finally allows research on areas of papillomavirus infection and sexual transmission that have previously not been possible in a small animal model. The paper has recently …
Dr. Megan Spurgeon, Associate Scientist, teaching about the link between viruses and cancer at Saturday Science at Discovery. On Saturday, September 14th, volunteers from the McArdle Laboratory and the Institute for Molecular Virology teamed up to teach children and families from the community about viruses and cancer at the Morgridge Institute’s Saturday Science at Discovery …
Researchers Caroline Alexander (left) and Ildiko Kasza (right). Recent discoveries from Caroline Alexander and Ildiko Kasza suggest that skin might be a more important player in metabolism than previously understood. Loss of heat through skin, predominantly by evaporation, may throw a metabolic switch that determines whether mammals lay down body fat and become obese. Their …
Paul Ahlquist speaking in the video on broad-spectrum antivirals and the Morgridge Institute for Research. Dr. Paul Ahlquist speaks about our constant fight against emerging viruses in a video and article originally posted by the Morgridge Institute for Research. “Viruses evolve at phenomenal rates,” noted Ahlquist, adding that “the viruses are winning, but in an …
Howard Temin, photo from the Nobel Foundation archive “Throughout the 1970s, a biologist named Howard Temin became convinced that something wasn’t right in science’s understanding of viruses. His colleagues dismissed him as a heretic. He turned out to be right.” – Malcolm Gladwell Revisionist History Season 4, Episode 10 podcast “The Obscure Virus Club”exposes listeners to …