The McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research would like to say THANK YOU to the Freedom High School Student Council Members and others who raised $2,800 for research at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research.  Each year, the Freedom High School student council hosts a formal dance to acknowledge various clubs throughout the school.  Court members …

Bill Sugden, Ph.D., presented “Understanding Burkitt’s Lymphoma: From its Discovery to Working Toward its Cure” at UW–Madison’s Wednesday Nite @ the Lab on Wednesday, July 15, 2015. The Wednesday Nite @ the Lab series features the latest from UW–Madison researchers as they describe their investigations and inventions that are changing how we look at life …

The McArdle Laboratory, along with the University of Wisconsin–Madison Carbone Cancer Center and the Institute for Molecular Virology, hosted thirty UW–Madison alumni and their grandchildren for “Researching Cancer Cures,” a two-day major for the Grandparents University outreach event held annually and organized by the Wisconsin Alumni Association. Every summer, Grandparents University brings children ages 7 …

Wei Xu, Ph.D., and Hao Zeng, graduate student, at McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, UW–Madison, have identified a key component of endocrine-therapy resistance in breast cancer, a finding that could lead to the development of new treatment approaches for the most common subtype of the disease. View the News Article View the Full Article

Rob Kalejta, Ph.D., McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, Emily Albright, graduate student, UW–Madison, and former postdoctoral researcher, Song Hee Lee, have recently shown that individual cells in the human body have an armament designed to prevent HCMV from achieving and maintaining this latency, to shine a spotlight on the virus so the immune system knows …

PBS will air a three-part documentary directed by award-winning filmmaker Barak Goodman and executive produced by Ken Burns, Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book. The series is described as “the most comprehensive documentary on a single disease ever made.” It will be aired on Wisconsin Public Television (WPR) starting …