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Find news from Tech Council members below. Not a member but want your items posted? Reach out to Angela at angela@wisconsintechnologycouncil.comWisBusiness: Microsoft announces $4 billion investment in Mount Pleasant
Microsoft announced it plans to invest another $4 billion in its datacenter in Mount Pleasant by the end of 2028. The new investment comes after Microsoft announced last May it would be investing $3.3 billion by the end of 2026. The new investment, announced Thursday...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Marquette University professor receives $3.2 million NIH grant to study foot issues
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Karen Kruger, research associate professor in the Marquette University and Medical College of Wisconsin Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, a grant with an anticipated value of $3.2 million, Marquette announced on...
WisBusiness: UW computing expert says state ‘very well-positioned’ to lead on AI
The head of UW-Madison’s School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences says Wisconsin is “very well-positioned to be a leader” in AI development. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, a professor in the university’s Computer Sciences Department and a special advisor to the...
Venture Investors: Venture Investors Health Fund Announces $80M Close of Seventh Fund to Transform Standard of Care in Healthcare
Venture Investors Health Fund (also known as “VI”) today announced the successful close of its seventh fund, raising $80 million to drive breakthrough healthcare innovations that aim to fundamentally change the standard of care. Based in the Midwest—home to...
In Business: Exact Sciences launches Cancerguard blood test
Exact Sciences Corp. on Wednesday announced the launch of the Cancerguard test, a new multi-cancer early detection blood test that is now available as a laboratory-developed test in the United States. Cancerguard is the first MCED test commercially available that...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Marquette University professor receives $2.7 million NIH grant
Marquette University assistant professor of physical therapy Kristi Streeter has received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Streeter and her team will use the NIH funding for research to...