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The Androgren Excess & PCOS Society has awarded its 2021 Ricardo Azziz Distinguished Researcher Award to David Abbott. The award was created through an endowment to recognize distinguished leadership in the field of androgen excess and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) research. The award supports the vision of the Society as an international leader in fostering the highest …
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 distinguished scientist Toni Ziegler joins the BBC Earth Podcast to explore what drives the bond between parents and infants — drawing on her research into the hormones and behaviors behind parental care in primates. Listen to the episode (her segment runs 6:50–14:15)
Twenty years ago, WNPRC scientist James Thomson derived the world’s first human embryonic stem cells — and later the first induced pluripotent stem cells — launching a new era of regenerative medicine. This piece marks the anniversary and traces how those breakthroughs, born from nonhuman-primate research at WNPRC, now drive dozens of clinical trials.
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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.