ATTENTION: FREE Scanning! The UWCCC has created the Ultrasound/Photoacoustic Voucher Program, providing up to 10 hours of free pilot scanning to cancer relevant applications, in order to stimulate usage on this new system! Inquire ASAP as funding …
Year: 2018
Employee Spotlight: Katie Kovacich, Program Administrator for the Lang Lab
Katie started at UWCCC as an undergraduate in the Phase I office, and has moved up the ranks to become the Lang Lab’s Program Administrator.
Improving Cancer Outcomes by Focusing on the Patients
Go to any cancer website, such as sites hosted by the National Cancer Institute or the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, and you will find important information about rates of new cancer diagnoses and five-year …
Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium to hold summit Sept. 29
Researchers and leaders from 12 Big Ten cancer centers will meet at Big Ten Conference Headquarters in Chicago on Saturday, Sept. 29. The Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium Summit is expected to draw about 150 participants, including …
Employee Spotlight: Carl Johnson, Manager of Shared Scientific Instrumentation and Glasswash Facility
Carl is a Madison native who, when WIMR I was completed, want to be part of the community that saw and helped it thrive.
Forgotten Molecules
On a rainy day last fall, chemist Scott Wildman left his office on the UW– Madison campus and drove to a retirement community on the city’s west side to bring 40 years of scientific work out of …
Resource Spotlight: Clinical Research QA and Compliance
The scope of the Protocol Review and Monitoring Committee is to scientifically evaluate and prioritize cancer-related studies derived and supported from institutional sources, including those originating from other cancer centers, or from industry.
Spring 2018 Clinical Research Internship Program
The University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center Clinical Research Internship program was brand new in the spring semester of 2018 and based on the idea of connecting students with clinical research through specific projects and …
Wisconsin Study Seeks ‘Extreme Survivors’ of Metastatic Breast Cancer
Some patients can live for years, and even decades, after breast cancer has spread to their bones and other tissues. A new international study is looking for patients with metastatic breast cancer in hopes of unlocking the …