Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

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WARF Ambassador Trivia Night

Union South 1308 W. Dayton St., Madison

UW-Madison postdocs and grad students are invited to show off your science, pop culture and miscellaneous trivia knowledge with the WARF Ambassadors! WARF will provide pizza and beer. Come by yourself or with a team of up to four people. The top three teams will receive prizes. *Attendance is limited to UW grad students and

Gene Discovery to Clinical Trials: How Clinical and Basic Research Have Intersected to Develop and Test New Therapies for Rett Syndrome

John D. Wiley Conference Center, Waisman Center 1500 Highland Ave., Madison

Jeffrey Neul is director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center and the Annette Shaffer Eskind Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Neul’s research is focused on Rett syndrome and related genetically based neurodevelopmental disorders. It integrates laboratory-based exploration of disease mechanisms, biomarker discovery and preclinical therapy evaluation with clinical research including longitudinal natural history

Inflammation and Cancer: From Basic Mechanisms to Therapeutic Targets

1345 Health Sciences Learning Center 750 Highland Ave., Madison

Lisa M. Coussens is a professor and the chairwoman of cell, developmental & cancer biology and the deputy director for basic & translational research at the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University. Her lab focuses on the role of immune cells and their mediators as critical regulators of cancer development. They are

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