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Dr. Matthew Hearing, assistant professor of biomedical sciences in Marquette University’s College of Health Sciences, has received a R01 grant worth $2,067,753 from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse to study how the brain changes in...

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: The Podcast” is with Wendy Baumann, president and chief visionary officer of the Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation. WWBIC is a statewide economic development corporation that aims to level the economic playing field...

InvivoSciences, a pre-clinical stage biotech firm based in Madison, is gearing up for a potential FDA application for a heart failure drug and companion diagnostic tool. But first, company leaders plan to meet with officials at the federal agency to get feedback ahead...

Wisconsin startup accelerator gener8tor, along with the City of Kenosha, announced this week the latest cohort of companies that will participate in the city’s second gBETA program. gBETA is a free, seven-week accelerator that works with local, early-stage startups so...

One of Dane County’s biggest companies is planning another expansion — on top of efforts to add two new buildings and hire an additional 1,700 new employees this year. Epic Systems, a Verona-based health care software company that employs around 13,000 people, is...

The Zilber Family Foundation is giving $20 million to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Joseph J. Zilber College of Public Health to support faculty excellence and student achievement. Specifically, the funding will support two endowments: the Zilber Faculty...

Registered nurse Lindsey Roddy witnessed the dangers of tangled medical tubing when she nearly lost a patient after a medical line carrying life support medications caught and was pulled out from the patient’s body. Studies indicate that 19 million medical lines are...

WRTP | BIG STEP, a nonprofit workforce intermediary, is working with Madison startup Realta Fusion in a partnership that will work to identify the competencies and skills needed to create and sustain Wisconsin’s fusion workforce as the industry develops. “There’s no...

Bend Health, Inc. ("Bend") a leading national, virtual pediatric behavioral care provider that raised $32 million in capital last year, today announced an expansion of its child and adolescent mental health care services to include virtual neuropsychological...

In a recent blog post on LinkedIn, AmpliPhi Digital founder Spencer X. Smith highlighted mounting concerns about the potential for "deepfakes" such as manipulated video, audio and images to mislead people. Because AI has now advanced enough to create convincing fakes,...