Category: Funding & Grants

Pilot project calls, grant awards, funding news.

WNPRC Pilot Research Program Award Winners Announced

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Congratulations to the 2025 WNPRC Pilot Research Program winners! Pilot research is intended to help investigators generate preliminary data or results necessary to apply for support from other primary sources of funding. Pilot Research Projects may include preliminary activities on biomedical research topics in keeping with the main research areas of the WNPRC, Regenerative and …

Nanocapsule gene editing system earns new NIH funding

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A UW–Madison gene-editing project — a nanocapsule that delivers CRISPR safely into the brain — earned $2.3 million in new NIH funding. WNPRC scientists Marina Emborg and Jon Levine are collaborators, and the next phase will test the system’s gene editing and safety in nonhuman-primate brains at WNPRC.