On Jan. 23, 2026, a case-control study published in The Journal of Pediatrics reports that routine childhood vaccinations,…
On Jan. 22, 2026, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison announced they have created a new way to…
On Sept. 10, 2025, Exact Sciences announced the launch of the Cancerguard™ test, a new multi-cancer early detection…
On Jul. 31, 2025, Susan Monarez, Ph.D., was sworn in as Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease…
On Jul. 28, 2025, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI) and Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research…
In Feb. 26, 2025, Eli Lilly announced that it plans to bolster its domestic medicine production across therapeutic…
On Oct. 28, 2024, University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers reported that a strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus found…
On Sept. 27, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the recommendations for the viral composition of influenza…
On May 24, 2024, a team led by University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists reported that consuming raw cow’s milk…
On Mar. 20, 2024, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced they had approved a University of Wisconsin…
On Mar. 10, 2022, schools with mandatory masking during the Delta surge had approximately 72% fewer cases of…
Our Heroes and Remembrance illustration has Maurice Ralph Hilleman and John Enders, pioneering developers of common vaccines, and…
On Nov. 27, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it had confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2…
On Jun. 10, 2020, Catalent announced that it had signed an agreement with Spicona to develop a virus-like…
On May 27, 2020, Heat Biologics announced a collaboration with Waisman Biomanufacturing to establish a partnership for the…
On May 13, 2020, in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists in the…
On Apr. 28, 2020, researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have…
On Apr. 2, 2020, an international collaboration of virologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the vaccine companies…
Wisconsin Life Science Genealogy illustrates life science companies and non-profit research organization in the State of Wisconsin by…
On Jun. 13, 2012, the Human Microbiome Project announced the completion of a seminal study of microbial diversity….
On May 2, 2008, Gov. Jim Doyle and UW–Madison alumni John and Tashia Morgridge joined the UW–Madison community…
On Sept. 1, 2006, President Bush appointed John E. Niederhuber, M.D., to be the 13th director of the…
On Apr. 3, 2006, UW Madison alumni John and Tashia Morgridge pledged $50 million – the largest individual…
On May 6, 2004, the Health Sciences Learning Center opened near the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. The…
In 2004, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle proposed the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (WID), a UW-Madison research enterprise, to…
In Jan. 1999, the Carbone Cancer Center and McArdle Laboratories merged and began to function as a single…
On Nov. 26, 1998, Wisconsin biologist James Thomson reported the first isolation and culturing of human embryonic stem…
On Apr. 22, 1990, the second Earth Day was celebrated by more than 225 million people. The first…
On Apr. 24, 1987, Advanced Genetic Sciences (AGS) sprayed Frostban on an acre of strawberry plants in Brentwood,…
In 1984, the University of Wisconsin University Research Park was founded to encourage technology transfer and create an…