Medical College of Wisconsin News

Mental Illness Awareness Week was honored recently by the Waukesha chapter of the National Association for Mental Illness at a dinner and awards presentation at Thunder Bay Grille in Pewaukee.

Research that is targeting the early diagnosis of Alzheimer disease has drawn national attention to the work of Michael Seidenberg, PhD, a faculty member at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.

A $1.1 million dollar gift from the Daniel and Laura Gruber Charitable Lead Trust #3 will boost the study of esophageal cancer at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee by establishing the James J. Gralton Laboratory and the James J. Gralton Endowed Research Fund.

Language Imaging Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA Address correspondence to Jeffrey R. Binder.

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING: Two experienced radiologists have joined Lake Forest Hospital's newly restructured Diagnostic Imaging Department.

Discover Mediaworks has hired D.P. Knudten as the company's creative director. Hal Leonard Corp.

An exclusive I-TEAM health investigation. Toxic water in our children's schools.

Dr. Reza Shaker . . . "It is really heartwarming to know the family has decided to make this generous donation." Laura Gralton was 21 years old when she lost her father to esophageal cancer.

Karim Si-Tayeb, a doctorial student at the Medical College of Wisconsin, separates stem cells from one another to keep them in a usable state while working in the Duncan Lab, where they are producing and maintaining embryonic stem cells, in May 2008.

Milwaukee, WI Getting a mammogram has never been this much fun. To encourage women to get this important annual screening, Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin Springdale Health Center is hosting a special gathering that includes free pampering treats for women.

UC Riverside has named a founding dean for its developing medical school, a job that includes not only recruiting students but keeping them as local practitioners after they graduate.

Cell biologist at Medical College of Wisconsin discovered a way to turn skin cells into healthy liver cells.

Alexandra Harrington, M.D., has been appointed assistant professor of pathology at The Medical College of Wisconsin and to the medical staff at Froedtert Hospital, a major teaching affiliate of the College.

5 years Mandy Alexander, Mike Landry, WS Packaging Group; Scott Thoresen, city of De Pere New on the job Prevea Health has hired obstetrician and gynecologist Michael Pech.

Tom P. Aufderheide, M.D., an internationally recognized researcher in the field of emergency cardiac care at The Medical College of Wisconsin, was one of 65 people in the United States and five foreign associates elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Toss in $63 million in non-science R&D spending at the UW-Madison, which was also third in that category, and the composite rank is second - only behind Johns Hopkins, where about half of its $1.68 billion total is tied to defense work within its Applied Physics Laboratory.

The Medical College of Wisconsin has been awarded a five-year, $8 million, multi-investigator Program Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health to understand how human pluripotent stem cells, defined as cells which if left to their own designs can develop into any of the more than 200 cell types in the human body, can be channeled to ...

Oct. 20, 2009 2:01 p.m. The United Performing Arts Fund announced Tuesday that Ted D. Kellner, chairman and chief executive officer of Fiduciary Management, Inc., and Linda T. Mellowes, a community volunteer, will be the co-chairs for the 2010 campaign.

IMS , Madison, hired Keith Hoffman as director of marketing. Education Concordia University Wisconsin , Mequon, hired Gwendolyn Graves as a senior graphic designer in its marketing department.

Oct. 9--In a fresh demonstration of science's newfound ability to alter the basic units of human life, researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin have turned the cells in human skin into those in the liver, work that opens new avenues for treating diseases of the liver without relying on organ transplants.