Month: June 2014

The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) has received a five-year, $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease to study the ways in which specific viruses become infectious. The research will examine the picornaviruses, a family of medically important viruses, members of which cause diseases ranging from the common cold to viral paralysis and encephalitis in humans, to an economically devastating disease that affects livestock.

MADISON- Andy North and his friends, a star-studded list of athletes, raised $920,000 at the sixth annual Andy North and Friends dinner and golf outing on Sunday and Monday.

WEST ALLIS, WIS., May 27, 2014 – The Wisconsin Dental Association Foundation has announced $53,725 in grants and designated funding to 22 programs that bring oral health care to low-income Wisconsin residents and provide other dentistry-related services.

MADISON- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded nearly $200,000 to a UW Carbone Cancer Center researcher to make opioid pain medicines more available to cancer patients in Africa.

Burlington, Wis. – Aurora Memorial Hospital of Burlington was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Racine Community Foundation. The grant will help purchase additional fitness equipment and monitors for the hospital’s new cardiac rehabilitation program. The program aims to reduce readmissions and help more people get back to leading healthier lives.