Inflammation and Cancer: From Basic Mechanisms to Therapeutic Targets
2025-02-12 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | 1345 Health Sciences Learning Center, 750 Highland Ave., Madison, WI, 53705, United States
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 interested in understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate leukocyte recruitment into neoplastic tissue, and the subsequent regulation those leukocytes exert on evolving cancer cells.
This Drug Discovery Series seminar is sponsored by the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and WARF Therapeutics.
The event will also be livestreamed on Zoom (Passcode: [REDACTED]

Gene Discovery to Clinical Trials: How Clinical and Basic Research Have Intersected to Develop and Test New Therapies for Rett Syndrome
2025-02-14 11:30 - 13:00 | John D. Wiley Conference Center, Waisman Center, 1500 Highland Ave., Madison, WI, 53705, United States
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 studies, development of outcome measures and biomarkers, and clinical trials of novel therapeutic approaches to Rett syndrome.
This seminar is part of the Waisman Center John D. Wiley Seminar Series/WARF Therapeutics Drug Discovery Series.
A luncheon will be held at 11:30 a.m., followed by the lecture at noon.

Microenvironmental Plasticity: Inflammation Shaping Metastatic Fate
2026-03-25 11:00 - 12:00 | 1345 Health Sciences Learning Center, 750 Highland Ave., Madison, WI, 53705, United States
Mikala Egeblad, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Tumor Microenvironment at Johns Hopkins University, is an internationally recognized cancer researcher who studies how the tumor microenvironment—the immune cells, blood vessels, chemical signals and support matrix surrounding a tumor—regulates cancer initiation, progression and metastasis. Egeblad’s ultimate goal is to help cancer patients mitigate their risk of recurrence and metastasis, and her work holds promise for potential future treatment options.
This Drug Discovery Series seminar is sponsored by the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and WARF Therapeutics.

WARF Ambassador Trivia Night
2026-04-01 19:00 - 22:00 | Memorial Union Great Hall, 800 Langdon St., Madison, 53706, United States
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 postdocs.

Red Cross Blood Drive
2026-07-28 09:00 - 14:00 | WARF Building, 614 Walnut St., Madison, WI, 53726, United States
Join us for our July Red Cross blood drive! To donate, sign up online; walk-ins are also welcome.
