Department of Oncology
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 …
The McArdle Laboratory and Cancer Biology Graduate Program were delighted to host Dr. Asha Collins to present and field questions as part of a professional development workshop sponsored by the program’s NCI-funded T32 training program in cancer biology. Students, postdocs, undergraduates, and academic staff were all invited to participate. Asha received her PhD in Cancer …
Where are you from and what’s your previous training? Why Madison and the Cancer Biology program? I’m originally from the Northern VA area, but grew up in a military family, so there’s not a specific place I consider to be my childhood home. After graduating from the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA, I …
McArdle Assistant Professor Huy Dinh recently received a $1.8 million 5-year NIH R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) that will propel his laboratory’s work aiming to understand the role of immune cells known as neutrophils in wound healing and cancers. Neutrophils are the most abundant cell type in the blood and are the first to …
The McArdle laboratory for Cancer Research is pleased to announce that Dr. Beth Weaver (Depts. of Oncology and Cell and Regenerative Biology) has been awarded the prestigious 2023 UW SMPH Group on Women in Medicine and Science/BIRCHWH Women’s Health Research Mentorship Award. The award recognizes impactful mentorship of women scientists who are pursuing careers in …
View this year’s Bothwell prize announcement here. This year’s Bothwell prize winner is a paper from Zhao et al (with senior author Dr. Josh Lang, Department of Human Oncology), “A clinical-grade liquid biomarker detects neuroendocrine differentiation in prostate cancer”. The committee chose this paper because the technique it describes could quickly impact the treatment of men …
Started in 2019, the Heidi Dvinge and Patti Keely Cancer Trainee Network aims to bring cancer researchers from the basic to the clinical domains under one umbrella and foster interactions, support and networking opportunities. As part of this mission, it recognizes outstanding graduate and medical students/ residents/ clinical and research fellows/ postdocs with the semi-annual …
For 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. Organized and run by volunteers, each year the campaign invites state, University, and UW Health employees to take part in special events and, most of all, make …
59 years ago today (October 17, 1964), the new McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research (450 North Randall Avenue) was dedicated. Pictured (left to right): Congressman Melvin Laird; Harold P. Rusch; Kenneth M. Endicott (Director, National Cancer Institute); Robert L. Clodius (Vice President, University of Wisconsin)
The McArdle laboratory for Cancer Research is pleased to announce that Cancer Biology graduate student Mary (Maggie) Stangis (Halberg Laboratory) was awarded the 2022-23 Ruth Dicke Scholarship. This award recognizes women who are performing hypothesis driven research in STEM and Social Science fields. Research Summary: My research is focused on increasing our understanding of how …