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May 2020: Events, News and Networking

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Professional and contemporary office and lab space is available at URP!

Contact the URP office for more information. 

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VIRTUAL: Women in Biohealth Professional Development Event

May 27 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Online Event


Enhancing Employee Engagement, Innovation, and Performance by Leading Inclusively

Presentation and conversation with Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, Binnu Palta Hill.
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VIRTUAL: 2020 Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference

June 4
Online Event
  • Featuring keynote by Brian Pinkerton, Chief Architect of Siri at Apple.
  • Watch our “Diligent Dozen” showcase their companies in 7 minute pitches!
  • Six informative panel sessions moderated by industry experts with experienced panelists.
  • Set up private 1:1 video conference networking time during the conference with other attendees.
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VIRTUAL: DOD SBIR/STTR Workshop

June 18 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Online Event

DOD has the largest portion of the $3.7B SBIR/STTR Program. Wisconsin businesses received 6 awards in 2019, out of the 1824 awarded nationally. Why don’t Wisconsin researchers and small businesses tap into this funding more often? Now is the time to tap this fund!

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URP / PROUD SUPPORTERS:
BioForward 2019 Annual Report

 

BioForward serves as the independent voice of the Wisconsin biohealth industry, being the only Wisconsin organization representing over 220 biohealth member companies including biotech, biopharma, medical devices, healthcare systems, diagnostics, digital health, research institutions, and service providers. BioForward’s programs and memberships are designed to support and bring value to our members through collaborative assistance, legislative advocacy, networking, our Select Savings purchasing consortium, and by investing in resources and initiatives that encourage the growth of the biohealth industry.

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I nearly died from H1N1. I can tell you this: Social distancing is the best potion we have to fight the coronavirus in Wisconsin

April 23
Aaron Olver
Special for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel


In 2009, the H1N1 viral pandemic nearly killed me. I’ve lived through the care the sickest COVID-19 patients will need, and I’m here to tell you that social distancing through Gov. Tony Evers’ “safer at home” order is the only chance we have.

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State tech employment grows by nearly 5,000 jobs

May 18
In Business


A Cyberstates 2020 report by CompTIA shows IT jobs statewide growing by a net of nearly 5,000 in 2019. The news follows a decade of expansion, when the state’s tech-related labor force grew by more than 44,000 workers. In 2019, tech employment increased by about 4,942 workers, up 2.3 percent compared to 2018.

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Opinion: The University of Wisconsin and other public universities are on the front lines of the battle against coronavirus

May 12
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Rebecca M. Blank and Peter McPherson

Our nation and the world are facing a global pandemic of the sort we have not seen for a century. We are anxious about potential illness and death among our family and friends. But we are also seeing, perhaps more clearly than ever, the places where hope exists.

Together, we have paused tens of thousands of research projects and turned our attention to the urgent work of stopping the coronavirus. In record time, we’ve put together public-private partnerships of scientists, engineers, public health experts, manufacturers and many others to address the pandemic.


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Ranked: The 10 US Cities Best Positioned To Recover From Coronavirus

May 12
Forbes.com


Madison earns Top 10 spot

The coronavirus pandemic has impacted cities across the country with varying force. New York City has been hardest hit, and it’s no secret that the Big Apple is going to be one of the places that will have the most challenging time bouncing back from the coronavirus pandemic, no matter when things subside.

But which cities will have the best coronavirus recovery? And which other cities will struggle? Moody’s Analytics has issued a report that examines the potential to recover from coronavirus among the top 100 metro areas in the US—and while some of the results are to be expected, some are more surprising.


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Madison-based GoDx developing rapid test for COVID-19

May 10
Madison.com

GoDx has been developing paper-based tests for pathogens that cause gastrointestinal diseases, such as salmonella and norovirus. While those tests are currently undergoing clinical trials, GoDX is now working on a similar test for the new coronavirus that causes the respiratory disease COVID-19.

The test GoDx is developing, CEO Chang Hee Kim said, wouldn’t require a lab, instead offering results at the point of care in about 30 minutes.

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Madison’s Nimble Therapeutics collabs with Roche on COVID-19 diagnostics

May 7
WisconsinInno

Madison-based Nimble Therapeutics, is collaborating with Roche Diagnostics to discover and develop novel peptide-based molecules for diagnostics of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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Troxell scholars exemplify intellectual curiosity and global citizenship

May 5
UW Letters & Sciences

Four UW Madison College of Letters and Science students will receive the Louise Troxell Award, recognizing extraordinary junior and senior women whose qualifications include exceptional intellectual ability, curiosity, citizenry and engagement in society.

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