Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

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2,000

active issued U.S. patents

$4.1 billion 

of cumulative grants to UW-Madison & the Morgridge Institute since inception on an inflation-adjusted basis

645

active commercial licenses

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2022 WARF Innovation Awards

Two UW-Madison teams chosen 2022 WARF Innovation Award winners

Congratulations to Ramathasan Thevamaran and Jizhe Cai for their work, New, Lightweight Material to Protect Against Bullets and Other High-Speed Impacts, and Sara McCoy, Miriam Shelef, Michael Newton and Zihao Zheng for their work, Innovative New Diagnostic Test for Sjögren’s Syndrome!

 

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Two UW-Madison teams chosen 2022 WARF Innovation Award winners<
December 15, 2022

Two UW-Madison teams chosen 2022 WARF Innovation Award winners

Selected from more than 400 innovation disclosures CONTACT: Jeanan Yasiri Moe, Director of Strategic Communications [email protected] | (608) 960-9892 MADISON, Wis. – An engineering physics team using carbon nanotubes to build…

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Submissions invited for two WARF Accelerator Challenge Grants, one on mental health and the other on big data<
November 2, 2022

Submissions invited for two WARF Accelerator Challenge Grants, one on mental health and the other on big data

WARF will award 3-4 grants from a $100K pool for each challenge CONTACT: Jeanan Yasiri Moe Director of Strategic Communications [email protected] | (608) 960-9892 MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Alumni…

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