Morgridge News
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery celebrate ‘topping out’
On May 26, the construction team of the new Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery held a “topping out” ceremony, traditional in the building industry for recognizing the construction milestone of placing and welding the last beam at the top of a building.
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- Recent sightings: Eyes on UW
- Wisconsin, Morgridge scientists excise vector, exotic genes from induced stem cells
- For Kim, calculated risk is all in the game
Meet Dr. Sang Kim
Educated on both coasts of the U.S., raised in Canada and born in Korea, the new executive director of the Morgridge Institute was drawn back to Madison by the opportunity to build the Midwest’s premier private biomedical research organization. Read about Sangtae “Sang” Kim’s aspirations for the new institute and how his unique background crossing academic, government and industry has prepared him to lead it. More >
World-class researchers at the Morgridge Institute are on a mission to propel scientific discoveries into real solutions. Their aim is nothing less than transformative science, science that will change lives. Learn about the unique thinking behind the Morgridge Institute and how four research areas are coming together to accelerate "discovery to delivery."
The March 26, 2009 online issue of the journal Science published the latest stem cell breakthrough of Dr. James Thomson’s Regenerative Biology team – the discovery of vector-free induced pluripotent stem cells. Since viral vectors and genetic artifacts can cause cancer and cell mutations, this discovery removes an important safety concern about the potential use of these embryonic-like, or “blank slate,” cells in human treatments. More >
