Elaine Alarid receives Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship
Elaine Alarid, Ph.D., Professor of Oncology, is among 20 professors named to Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorships. View the Full Article
Department of Oncology
Elaine Alarid, Ph.D., Professor of Oncology, is among 20 professors named to Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorships. View the Full Article
Dr. Paul G. Ahlquist, a virologist and faculty member in McArdle for the past 26 years, has received the prestigious Steenbock Professorship in Microbiological Sciences. This professorship, endowed by Evelyn Steenbock, wife of the noted UW Biochemist, Professor Harry Steenbock, provides support to Dr. Ahlquist’s laboratory for a period of ten years. Dr. Lambert, Director …
Eric Johannsen, M.D., Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Oncology, was interviewed for an episode of Blue Sky Science, which pairs local students’ questions with UW experts and is a collaboration between the Wisconsin State Journal and the Morgridge Institute for research. Dr. Johannsen, who studies how Epstein-Barr virus causes cancer, was asked …
The McArdle Laboratory mourns the loss of Dr. Roswell “Roz” Boutwell, Professor Emeritus of Oncology. Dr. Boutwell passed away on Friday, August 25th, 2017, at the Attic Angel Community in Middleton, WI. He was 99 years old at his time of passing, and was preceded in death by his wife, Luella Mae (“Lou”), just two …
Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education (VCRGE) Marsha Mailick, announced the appointment of Norman Drinkwater, Ph.D., as Associate Vice Chancellor of Biological Sciences in the Office of Research and Graduate Education, effective immediately. Dr. Drinkwater has been serving in the role on an interim basis. Click here to learn more about Dr. Drinkwater’s appointment
Shigeki Miyamoto, Ph.D., McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, and David Beebe, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, UW–Madison, recently published news of an important advance in efforts to tailor medical treatment plans to individual patients by creating a “tumor in a dish” that can accurately anticipate a multiple myeloma patient’s response to a drug. View the Full Article
On Friday, May 1, 2015, Christopher Bradfield, Ph.D., Professor of Oncology at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research was appointed interim director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) by UW–Madison Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, Marsha Mailick. Click here to learn more about Dr. Bradfield’s appointment
Dr. Elizabeth Szybalski, long-time scientist at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, passed away on Thursday, April 23, 2015 after a long illness. She was 87 years old. Elizabeth was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Mabel H. Hunter and historic Orphan-Court Justice, the Honorable David G. Hunter. She showed a strong …
The newly formed McArdle Alumni Advisory Board is comprised of about 30 alumni whom we believe represent the breadth and diversity of the >1500 graduate students and postdocs/scientists trained in McArdle over the last 75 years. Members of this advisory board all are highly successful alumni in academics, business and governmental organizations. They were active participants …
The McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research would like to say THANK YOU to Verona Area School and community members who teamed up with Gray’s Tied House of Verona to sponsor their 10th Annual “Night of Hope”. All proceeds from this event were donated to cancer research at the McArdle Laboratory in honor of all Verona …