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Tag: Marina Emborg

Parkinson’s treatment tested at UW showing promise in first clinical trial

Dr. Marina Emborg awarded the Steenbock professorship

Congratulations to Dr. Marina Emborg for being awarded the Steenbock professorship!

Linde Lee Jacobs brings patient advocacy, personal journey to UW–Madison

By Jordana Lenon Honoring her mother, while helping advance research on frontal temporal dementia (FTD) is Linde Lee Jacobs’ mission. It’s what recently brought her to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, including a visit to the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center. There, she learned about the work of Marina Emborg, professor of medical physics in the …

Emborg Lab image wins UW–Madison 2023 Cool Science Image Contest

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 …

UnRavelled comes to UW-Madison

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.

What to do with negative data

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 …

Emborg Lab members at 2022 Society for Neuroscience

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.

Emborg Lab image wins UW–Madison 2022 Cool Science Image Contest

Four UW–Madison students awarded prestigious 2022 Goldwater Scholarships

Samuel Neuman, an undergraduate in WNPRC’s Emborg lab, was among four UW–Madison students awarded 2022 Goldwater Scholarships.

Dr. Marina Emborg elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows

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) …