5 April, 2006 - Paul Bertics has received the Kellett Mid-Career Award that promotes the continued scholarly efforts of established faculty. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, honorees receive a $60,000 flexible research fund. Eligible candidates must be five to 20 years past their first promotion to a tenured position, and they are chosen by a committee from the Graduate School.

Paul Bertics, professor, biomolecular chemistry. Bertics has established an active research program aimed at elucidating fundamental mechanisms of hormone action with applications to the treatment of cancer, endotoxic shock and asthma. He has shown a commitment to teaching and service activities and has received numerous teaching awards. He also is chair of many campus committees, and he participates on multiple national and international grant review panels and as a reviewer for leading scientific journals.

28 October, 2005 - Meyer Jackson, PhD, of the Department of Physiology, received the WARF named professorship appointment as Kenneth S. Cole Professor of Physiology on July 1, 2005. The WARF professorship provides recognition and honor faculty members who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge, primarily through their research endeavors, but also as a result of their teaching and service activities. Jackson has established himself as an exceptional theoretician and experimentalist who is highly respected nationally and internationally for his work in the areas of ion channel biophysics and synaptic physiology.

12 September, 2005- Dr. Emery Bresnick has been appointed as Chair of the National Institutes of Health Erythrocyte and Leukocyte Biology Study Section for a two-year term.  The ELB Study Section reviews applications involving both basic and applied aspects of the blood system.  Specific focal areas include: molecular and cellular biology, biochemistry, and structural biology of components that function in and regulate blood cells; normal and pathological myeloid and erythroid cell function; signal transduction mechanisms; hemoglobin structure/function/regulation and relevant diseases; iron and heme metabolism and relevant diseases; gene therapy for blood disorders; immunohematology and transfusion medicine; inherited or acquired hemolytic anemias, including disorders involving the erythrocyte membrane and cytoskeleton.

1 September, 2005- Ed Chapman becomes an Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

12 July, 2005- The Fifth Annual Signal Transduction Research Training Symposium will occur Thursday, September 29th, from 9 am to 5 pm at the Fluno Center, 601 University Ave.

Contact Lynn Squire at lsquire@wisc.edu for registration information.

27 April, 2004- Hilldale and Holstrom Award winners:

The following is a list of recipients, and their faculty advisers and departments or programs, for the Hilldale Undergraduate Research Awards. Grants from the Hilldale Foundation and the Wisconsin Legislature provide $3,000 each to undergraduate students and $1,000 to the faculty or staff supervisors to work in collaboration on research projects

- Amanda Born, James Ervasti, Physiology

- Tina Bunnell, David Abbot, Obstetrics and Gyneclology; and Deborah Barnett, National Primate Research Center (Tina will matriculate with the MCP Program this Fall 2005.)

- Tiffany Eken, Gail Robertson, Physiology

- Nicholas Frame, Anna Huttenlocher, Pharmacology

- Peter Seebart, Randal Tibbetts, Pharmacology

- Samual Wittekind, Maureen Barr, Pharmaceutical Sciences

4/10/04 - Ed Chapman featured in Madison Magazine story.

3/8/04 The 4th MCP Symposium will be Tuesday, October 19th, 2004.

3/8/04 - Daniel Greenspan, PhD, professor and vice chair for research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, is among five UW-Madison professors who received a Kellett Mid-Career Award in recognition of continued scholarly efforts by established faculty. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation sponsors the $60,000 awards as one of several annual programs supported by WARF's block grant to the university. Eligible candidates must be five to 20 years past their first promotion to a tenured position. Recipients are chosen by a committee from the UW Graduate School. The award is named for William R. Kellett, a former president of the WARF Board of Trustees and retired president of Kimberly Clark Corp.

Greenspan has made key discoveries in the intersecting fields of matrix biology, growth factor activation, development and human disease. His laboratory discovered and characterized a class of proteins that orchestrate formation of the extracellular matrix with activation of certain growth factors during morphogenesis.

10/03/03 - Several researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including Edwin Chapman, identified a receptor for the Botox toxin that could lead to improved uses of the substance in the medical field and new methods for neutralizing it in the event of biological warfare. They published their paper in the Sept. 29 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology
Nature Review
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8/27/03 - Randal S. Tibbetts, assistant professor pharmacology, is one of two UW-Madison researchers to receive The Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Shaw Scientist Awards. The award provides each recipient with a $200,000 research grant. Tibbetts studies how cells respond to genetic damage to learn about neurodegenerative conditions. Because the grants are unrestricted and can be used to pursue highly speculative research, they are prized by scientists. A panel of five scientists from major research institutions throughout the United States selects the recipients.

8/15/03 - The Third Annual Signal Transduction Research Training Symposium will occur Tuesday, October 7, 2003, from 9 am to 6 pm at the Fluno Center, 601 University Ave.

8/5/03 - Dr. Emery Bresnick's lab's recent PNAS paper (Grass et al.) has been highlighted on several international web sites.  In addition, it will be the subject of a story in the Sept issue of ASBMB Today, the major monthly news journal of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 

4/25/03 - The following students and their advisors recently received Hilldale Undergraduate Research Awards. Grants from the Hilldale Foundation and the Wisconsin Legislature provide $4000 each to undergraduate students and $1000 to the faculty or staff supervisors to work in collaboration on research projects.

11/02 Dr. Emery Bresnick was invited to serve as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Cellular Physiology

11/07/02 Dr. Richard Anderson receives press for discovery of enzyme that may affect cancer metastasis

10/02 Dr. Emery Bresnick was elected to the Nucleic Acids Research Editorial Board

8/16/02 The Second Annual Signal Transduction Research Training Symposium will be on October 7, 2002.

7/01/02 Dr. Ed Chapman and Dr. Alan Rapraeger join Journal of Biological Chemistry Editorial Board

4/10/02 Dr. Dick Burgess teaches Protein Purification Course at Cold Springs Harbor Laboratories

2/22/02 Dr. Emery Bresnick receives Romnes Early-Career Award

Other Accomplishments (2001 and earlier)