Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers – such as pancreatic, colorectal, and liver cancer – often require surgical treatment. Because these procedures are complex, complications can happen. “Cancer surgery complications are associated with a variety of factors, including …
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Dr. Anna Beck Receives 2024 Badger Challenge Award
Certain types of benign breast lesions are associated with a high risk of future breast cancer development, but current clinical methods to estimate the level of an individual patient’s risk are inaccurate. With a new …
Wisconsin Surgery Research Roundup: January 2025
Wisconsin Department of Surgery members engage in remarkable research that yields many impactful publications every month. We’re highlighting several of these publications monthly to showcase the diversity of research in the department; see selections from …
Dr. Muhammed Murtaza Receives 2024 Bothwell Prize
Dr. Muhammed Murtaza, Associate Professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology, received the 2024 Bothwell Prize from the Carbone Cancer Center and the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research. This prize is awarded annually for a …
Wisconsin Surgery Research Roundup: December 2024
Wisconsin Department of Surgery members engage in remarkable research that yields many impactful publications every month. We’re highlighting several of these publications monthly to showcase the diversity of research in the department; see selections from …
Wisconsin Surgery Research Roundup: November 2024
Wisconsin Department of Surgery members engage in remarkable research that yields many impactful publications every month. We’re highlighting several of these publications monthly to showcase the diversity of research in the department; see selections from …
Dr. Muhammed Murtaza and Michelle Stephens Named 2024 WARF Innovation Award Winners
Dr. Muhammed Murtaza, Associate Professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology, and Michelle Stephens, researcher in the Department of Surgery, received the 2024 WARF Innovation Award for their work, Simplifying the Process for Early Detection, …
Wisconsin Surgery Research Roundup: September 2024
Wisconsin Department of Surgery members engage in remarkable research that yields many impactful publications every month. We’re highlighting several of these publications monthly to showcase the diversity of research in the department; see selections from …
Department of Surgery Postdoctoral Fellow Receives Grant to Improve Diagnosis of Sepsis
Congratulations to Haikun Zhang, PhD, who recently received a one-year, $19,000 research award from the Wisconsin Partnership Program’s 20th Anniversary Postdoctoral Grant Program. Zhang is a postdoctoral fellow who works jointly in the labs of …
Murtaza and Zafar Awarded Grant to Determine if Metastatic GI Cancer Is Detectable in Abdominal Fluid
Promising advancements have been made in the ability to detect and monitor different types of cancers by analyzing blood samples to look for tumor-specific DNA that is circulating in plasma. However, abdominal cancers that have …