The lab of Division of Transplantation Assistant Professor Matthew E. Brown, PhD, is hyper-focused on creating hypoimmune stem cells – cells that can evade recognition and destruction by the human immune system. Why? Because stem …
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Wisconsin Surgery Research Roundup: March 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. Carrie Thiessen Awarded Prestigious NIH Career Development Award
Division of Transplantation Assistant Professor Carrie Thiessen, MD, PhD, was recently awarded a 5-year, $956,000 career development award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. NIH career development awards provide early-stage …
UW Health Transplant Center Completes its 1,000th Heart Transplant
Doctoral Student in Odorico Lab Receives Prestigious Graduate Training Award from UW Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center
Second-year Cellular and Molecular Biology PhD student Caterra Leavens’ mission to develop a cure for Type 1 diabetes is personal; as a Type 1 diabetic herself, she is very familiar with the complexities of the …
Wisconsin Surgery Research Roundup: February 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. David Aufhauser Awarded Grant from Association of Organ Procurement Organizations Foundation
Advances in organ storage techniques have revolutionized organ donation after cardiac death. These techniques, called normothermic regional perfusion (NRP), allow a transplant team to restore blood and oxygen to organs to help them recover normal …
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 …
Wisconsin Surgery Research Roundup: October 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 …
Brown Lab Receives Accelerator Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
One of the lines of research that Division of Transplantation Assistant Professor Matthew Brown, PhD, is conducting focuses on developing regenerative medicine therapies that can treat or cure disease. Regenerative medicine is a field of …