Department of Oncology
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 …
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 …
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 …
McArdle alum Tim Schedl, PhD, has been elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society, has presented this honor annually since 1874 to recognize distinguished achievements in science and engineering. Schedl, now a Professor of Genetics at Washington University in St. Louis, …
It is with great sadness that we let you know that Dr. William F. Dove passed away on January 27, 2025. Bill was a respected colleague at the University of Wisconsin for 60 years and made seminal contributions to cancer research and to genetics. Below is a brief tribute. Please see the obituary for additional …
View this year’s Bothwell prize announcement here. The 2024 Bothwell prize is awarded for a paper published by Muhammed Murtaza, the Director of the Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine, University of Wisconsin–Madison, together with his colleagues. In this paper, Budhraja et al report their latest findings on the development of a blood test able …
For over 50 years, Partners in Giving has been creating enormous positive change at home and around the world through the amazing generosity of state workers in Dane County. This year’s campaign theme is “Together We Do More” and runs officially from October 7th through December 3rd, 2024, though donations can still be accepted through …
Where are you from and what’s your previous training? Why Madison and the Cancer Biology program? I graduated summa cum laude from St. Norbert College in the spring of 2021 with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology (biomedical sciences) and Spanish. During my three years in undergrad, I worked with Dr. Russ Feirer studying the …