2016-2017 awards and recognition
2017 2016
Over 60 years of life-saving research and humane animal care
2017 2016
WNPRC scientist Tom Friedrich and graduate student Louise Moncla provided deep genetic sequencing and analysis for studies of H7N9 avian influenza — a flu strain shown to be both lethal and transmissible, and capable of developing drug resistance, in a nonhuman-primate model. Their work supported the Kawaoka team’s research on this pandemic-potential virus.
Meet David O’Connor — WNPRC’s Associate Director and head of its Global Infectious Disease Division. An HIV-vaccine researcher who led UW–Madison’s Zika response and championed open, real-time data sharing during the outbreak, he’s profiled here on how a single book set him on a career hunting the viruses that threaten human health.
by Jordana Lenon Very few of us have had the chance to interview a famous person, write an article and publish it in our local newspaper. Even fewer have done so in the second grade. Fifteen years ago, seven-year-old Ian Hutchcroft strolled into Jamie Thomson’s office, talked to him for a while, then wrote a …