Over 60 years of life-saving research and humane animal care
An image from the lab of Marina Emborg — based at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center — was among the winners of UW–Madison’s 2023 Cool Science Image Contest. The Emborg Lab leads the university’s Preclinical Parkinson’s Research Program, using nonhuman primate models to advance treatments for neurodegenerative disease. See all the winning images at …
Casey Ostheimer — a UW–Madison neurobiology and genetics graduate and the Primate Center’s outreach and editorial intern — balanced stem cell research, patient care, and science outreach on her way to medical school.
WNPRC senior scientist Marina Emborg brought playwright Jake Broder to UW–Madison to present “UnRavelled,” his play about an artist’s frontotemporal dementia, to neuroscience students and faculty — connecting the arts to research on neurodegenerative disease.
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.
Samuel Neuman, an undergraduate in WNPRC’s Emborg lab, was among four UW–Madison students awarded 2022 Goldwater Scholarships.