UW researchers have developed a novel means of degrading extracellular proteins as a potential cancer treatment. The researchers recognized that transferrin is a protein ligand that carries iron into ...
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UW-Madison researchers successfully developed and demonstrated improved mRNA stabilization techniques that leverage mineral coatings. In short, the inventors stabilized mRNA complexes on mineral coate...
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UW-Madison researchers have discovered a novel marker in cardiac fibroblasts and myofibroblasts that reliably predicts extracellular matrix production in cultured cardiac fibroblasts. Sushi Domain Con...
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UW Madison researchers and collaborators have developed anti-SARS-CoV-2 α/β-polypeptides, pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and methods to inhibit, treat, and ameliorate SARS...
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The inventors have developed a novel system for co-differentiation of hepatocytes and hematopoietic progenitors from human embryonic stem cells (ES cells) that mimics a late fetal liver undergoing hem...
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The present invention from UW Madison inventors is a set of analogs of turbinmicin that show similar efficacy but are more soluble than the parent molecule. The parent molecule proved to be fairly ins...
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The present technology from UW Madison innovators provides a composition comprising a mixture of a source of calcium ions, alginate conjugated to an acrylate monomer (ALG-A), carboxymethylcellulose co...
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The present technology from UW Madison innovators provides a system for monitoring quorum-sensing in bacteria comprising bacteria that release at least one membrane-lytic toxin when the bacteria are a...
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The present invention by UW Madison researchers provides combination therapies and methods of treating cancer, including, cancers that are resistant to PD-1 therapy. The combination therapies describe...
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Ex vivo expansion and activation of T cells are prerequisites for any form of genetically engineered T cell immunotherapy. Several expansion and activation methodologies have been developed. However, ...
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Use of viral vectors for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell manufacturing constitutes a bottleneck in the supply chain for biomanufacturing and can be problematic due to: (1) batch-to-batch variab...
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The present technology from this UW Madison researcher is a germinant mixture that includes a) a bile acid main germinant, b) an amino acid co-germinant, c) an edible spore solubilizing agent, and d) ...
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The present invention by UW Madison researchers is a method of using enzalutamide, or other AR antagonists, to treat lung inflammation. In working with AR in the lungs, the researchers note that AR do...
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UW-Madison researchers have isolated and characterized a BA.2 strain of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.
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UW-Madison researchers have isolated and characterized a BA.1 strain of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.
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The present invention from UW Madison researchers provides compositions and methods of treating prostate cancer using a combination of a DNA vaccine, PD-1 inhibitor and an IDO inhibitor. Further, meth...
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A composition for the treatment of bladder fibrosis in a patient in need that includes a miR-29 mimic is disclosed. The miR-29 mimic may include a working RNA strand with the nucleotide sequence UAGCA...
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A method to inhibit neutrophil recruitment to damaged tissue, thereby inhibiting inflammation in a subject. The method includes administering to an anti-inflammatory amount of a myeloid-derived growth...
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Regulatory elements that drive Schwann cell-specific gene expression, nucleic acid vectors, virus particles, and therapeutic compositions incorporating these constructs; and methods of using these var...
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UW – Madison researchers have determined that SARS-CoV-2 infection induces antibodies against both structural and non-structural proteins and they identified epitopes in the SARS-CoV-2 membrane ...
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The present invention provides both QuilA-loaded chitosan (QAC)-encapsulated DNA vaccine compositions and viral vaccine compositions that encode a SARs-CoV-2 spike (S) protein, a SARs-CoV-2 nucleocaps...
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The disclosure relates to populations of educated macrophages and monocytes generated ex vivo or in vivo, and methods of making and using the same using lipid A aminoalkyl glucosaminide phosphate mole...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a nanoparticle-based platform comprising targeting agents (i.e., tumor selective peptides) and active agents (e.g., immuno- and chemo-drugs).  The nanopartic...
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UW Madison researchers' present invention provides vectors for delivery of an anti-apoptotic therapy. The vectors include a phosphoglycerate kinase (Pgk) promoter operably connected to a polynucleotid...
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UW Madison researchers have provided herein biodegradable polymers and nanoparticles comprising such polymers. The present nanoparticles deliver antibiotics to infected tissue with enhanced antibacter...
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