Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

MEET THE WARF INVENTORS THAT ARE PART OF OUR LEGACY

UW-Madison has a long history of landmark inventions that have the potential to improve the lives of millions. In partnership with the university, WARF is proud to advance those discoveries to market where they can begin making an impact.

From new options for cancer diagnostics and treatment to technologies that may lead to faster, greener and more powerful computers, from improved wireless communications to advancements in clean technology, UW-Madison researchers are continually developing game-changing innovations.

Meet some of the university researchers and their ideas that have the potential to change the world.

David Lynn
With support from WARF Accelerator, a super-slippery coating being developed at a University of Wisconsin-Madison lab could benefit medical catheters, factory equipment and even some day, oil tankers....

Read More

Read More
Kevin Barnett, Kefeng Huang & George Huber
“When I describe what I do, I say I put dirt in a reactor, heat it up and flow liquid over it,” jokes Kevin Barnett. It is a profound understatement for Barnett, a postdoctoral researcher in the visionary lab of Prof. George Huber...

Read More

Read More
Melissa Skala
There was a time when biomedical engineer Melissa Skala dreamed of becoming an astronaut. But at a young age a fascination with physics, and then with light, emerged....

Read More

Read More
Lynn Allen-Hoffmann

Lynn Allen-Hoffmann

Lynn Allen-Hoffmann is a pathologist, CEO and trailblazer. She is the first female UW faculty member to start a biotech company, Stratatech Corporation. In 1996 she made a remarkable discovery…

Read More

Melissa Skala

Melissa Skala

There was a time when biomedical engineer Melissa Skala dreamed of becoming an astronaut. But at a young age a fascination with physics, and then with light, emerged….

Read More

Gerald Kulcinski

Gerald Kulcinski

From the jungles of East Asia to poppy fields in Colombia, death sleeps a few inches beneath the ground. Across the globe an estimated 110 million land mines await reckoning….

Read More

David Lynn

David Lynn

With support from WARF Accelerator, a super-slippery coating being developed at a University of Wisconsin-Madison lab could benefit medical catheters, factory equipment and even some day, oil tankers….

Read More

Guelay Bilen-Rosas & Humberto Rosas

Guelay Bilen-Rosas & Humberto Rosas

It is a few days before Christmas Eve. That Dr. Guelay Bilen-Rosas has found time to be interviewed is a small miracle in itself. A pediatric anesthesiologist at UW Health, she is preparing for an upcoming 20-hour operation….

Read More

Kevin Barnett, Kefeng Huang & George Huber

Kevin Barnett, Kefeng Huang & George Huber

“When I describe what I do, I say I put dirt in a reactor, heat it up and flow liquid over it,” jokes Kevin Barnett. It is a profound understatement for Barnett, a postdoctoral researcher in the visionary lab of Prof. George Huber…

Read More

Katie Gold, Amanda Gevens & Phil Townsend

Katie Gold, Amanda Gevens & Phil Townsend

In infamy, few crop diseases rival late blight. It starved one million people and displaced a million more when it ravaged Ireland’s potato fields in the 1840s. More recently, it struck Bangladesh….

Read More

Jing Li

Jing Li

The robot in Jing Li’s laboratory does not look like one, she admits. “My student wanted to design something to replace himself.” She gestures to an unimposing circuit board on the bench top….

Read More

Kyoung-Shin Choi

Kyoung-Shin Choi

The data is startling: approximately 2/3 of the world must survive without ready access to fresh water at some point this year. In her office on the UW-Madison campus the global water crisis may seem far away….

Read More

WARF