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By Jordana Lenon Figuring out what to do with negative data is the topic of a new review by Marina Emborg, medical physics professor and director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Preclinical Parkinson’s Research Program. Emborg has conducted her research at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center since 2004. In her article, “Reframing the perception …
Thank you Marina Emborg, Ph.D., graduate student Julia Gambardella and undergraduate researcher Samuel Neuman for presenting at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in November, as well as volunteering at the National Primate Research Centers booth.
By Jordana Lenon Congratulations to Toni Ziegler, WNPRC distinguished scientist emerita, on winning the 2022 American Society of Primatologists Distinguished Primatologist Award! Ziegler accepted the award at the 2022 ASP meeting in Denver Aug. 25-28. The Distinguished Primatologist Award recognizes a primatologist who has had an outstanding career and made significant contributions to the field. …
By Jordana Lenon Lower urinary tract (LUT) dysfunction is prevalent in older adults. Clinical manifestations include urinary retention, incontinence and recurrent urinary tract infections. Bladder catheters and increased risk for infections requiring outpatient antibiotic treatment or hospitalization frequently result. This is often followed by the loss of independence and the need for long-term care in …
Congratulations to WNPRC scientist Thomas Friedrich, recipient of a Kellett Mid-Career Award from UW–Madison. Friedrich studies how viruses like influenza and Zika evolve and spread.
Jorge Osorio — a member of WNPRC’s Global Infectious Disease working group and a longtime collaborator on the center’s dengue vaccine and Zika research — has been named to lead the UW Global Health Institute.
We are excited to share AIMBE’s news release about Marina Emborg, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medical Physics and head of the Preclinical Parkinson’s Research Program, based at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center. Also check out this 2021 Wisconsin Medicine talk by Dr. Emborg. WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) …
WNPRC scientist Ricki Colman and UW–Madison colleagues showed that aged rhesus monkeys — which develop amyloid plaques naturally as they age — are a promising new model for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, more closely reflecting the human condition than the young, genetically-engineered mice typically studied.
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.