Category: Center News

Hires, appointments, retirements, in memoriam, director news, milestones.

Charles T. Snowdon (Chuck) 1941–2023

A science trailblazer retires: stem cell researcher James Thomson

Toni Ziegler, expert on nonhuman primate hormone assays, retires

Amidst a small gathering of friends and coworkers keeping their distance from one another on March 14, 2020 at the Fluno Center, UW–Madison Distinguished Scientist Toni Ziegler celebrated her retirement as head of Assay Services at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center. Many of us will remember this as our last event before hunkering down …

WNPRC 2018 year-in-review newsletter

Welcome to our annual update! Thank you, everyone, for another productive and rewarding year at the Primate Center! We have greatly enjoyed celebrating along with the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the whole world the 20th anniversary of the successful derivation and culture of human embryonic stem cells by James Thomson. Meanwhile, even as stem cells were …

In Memoriam: Jenn Brunner

We remember our friend and colleague Jenn Brunner (1975–2018), who is deeply missed by everyone at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center.

UW-Madison Featured Researcher: David O’Connor

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.

James Thompson: Famous for his work on stem cells

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 …