Over 60 years of life-saving research and humane animal care
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.
Stem cells yield nature’s blueprint for body’s vasculature