Department of Oncology
The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer; The Historic Work and Lives of Elizabeth Cavert Miller and James A Miller, by Robert G. McKinnell, University of Minnesota, is an account of how a married couple opened understanding of environmental carcinogenesis. Access This Publication
Paul Ahlquist, Ph.D., Paul J. Kaesberg Professor of Molecular Virology, Oncology and Plant Pathology; Lead Scientist for Virology, Morgridge Institute for Research; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, was named recipient of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s prestigious Hilldale Award. View the Full Article
Nathan Sherer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Molecular Virology and Oncology, and researchers Ginger Pocock and Jordan Becker in collaboration with Paul Ahlquist, Ph.D., Paul J. Kaesberg Professor of Molecular Virology, Oncology and Plant Pathology have leveraged some helpful technology to make HIV and its components fluoresce, revealing what their new study calls “striking, unexpected features” …
Wei Xu, Ph.D., Professor of Oncology, is among 12 professors to receive a Romnes Faculty Fellowship. View the Full Article
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