Janesville Summer Research Institute students at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer research (7/25). Last Thursday, students from the Janesville Summer Research Institute visited the McArdle Laboratory. The six-week program is headed by Dr. Zach Pratt, …
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Xing lab works with patient family to cure rare genetic mutation
Dr. Yongna Xing and Jordan Lang, March 2019 in front of angel’s wings made by patient families. Jordan’s parents spent years visiting doctors to find out why their baby girl wasn’t meeting developmental milestones. After …
UW News article features Dr. Aussie Suzuki and Dr. Beth Weaver’s cutting-edge research
Errors in cell division can cause cancer. Here, chromosomes in blue are being pulled in the wrong directions by the microtubules in red which will result in aneuploidy. Photo by Ryan A. Denu of the …
Big year for McArdle Cancer Virologists
The program project grant team (left to right): Nathan Sherer, PhD, Shannon C. Kenney, MD, Paul F. Lambert, PhD ’85, Janet E. Mertz, PhD, Eric C. Johannsen, MD, Paul Ahlquist, PhD ’81, Daniel Loeb, PhD, …
McArdle’s ‘BESTT’ team races for cancer education and awareness
Dr. Bill Sugden (left) and Dr. Zach Pratt (right) Dr. Bill Sugden and his colleagues pulled together the Bridging Education and Science Today for Tomorrow (BESTT) team to participate in the UW Carbone’s Race for …
McArdle achievements highlighted in Quarterly
Harold Rusch, MD ’33 Many McArdle achievements were highlighted in a piece about the UW Carbone Cancer Center, featured in a recent issue of the School of Medicine and Public Health’s magazine, Quarterly. Mentions include …
Sugden lab raises $5000 for cancer education and awareness
The BESTT team at the UW Carbone’s Race for Research. From left to right: Zach Pratt, Quincy Rosemarie, Adityarup Chakravorty, Rebecca Hutcheson, Adriel Taslim, Bill Sugden, Donata Oertel, Nathan Sherer Dr. Bill Sugden’s lab spent the last …
Xu lab receives funding and recognition for research on breast cancer
Dr. Wei Xu (front row, third from the right) with her fellow awardees at the AACR Grants Reception and Dinner on April 2, 2019. Photo by © AACR/Matt Herp 2019. Wei Xu and her laboratory have …
Researchers experiment with AI to improve drug discovery
Dr. F. Michael Hoffmann, a co-principal investigator on the UW2020 grant Anti-cancer drugs, antibiotics or other drugs have always been a key tool at doctors’ disposal for treating patients with a range of diseases. However, …
Blood-based screen for colon cancer shows promise
McArdle facutly member Dr. Bill Dove, senior author on the paper. If caught early, nearly all cases of colon cancer are curable. Though this should make screening tests straightforward, colon cancer screening suffers from a paradoxical combination …