2024
Heart cell muscles grown from human induced pluripotent stem cells and successfully grafted onto the hearts of rhesus macaque monkeys with heart defects is a step towards the clinical applications of human congenital heart defects. Read here to learn more about it!
Human trials for a new Parkinson’s treatment starts thanks to the Emborg lab successfully grafting dopaminergic neuronal progenitor cells into the brains of cynomolgus macaque monkeys. Read here or watch here to learn more!
Read here about Linde Lee’s journey as an advocate for families with frontotemporal dementia and her visit to UW Madison.
Congrats to Preethi Saravanan for her Hilldale award and Melissa Fiorentino for her Honors Summer Apprenticeship Award!
2023
Congrats to Jeanette Metzger, Viktoriya Bondarenko, Preethi Saravanan, Lindsey Neumann and Marina Emborg. Their photo, “Broken Brainbow”, is a 2023 Cool Science Image Contest Winner!
Read about Jake Broder’s visit to UW-Madison in Jordana Lenon’s article UnRavelled comes to UW-Madison.
In honor of her exceptional mentorship for undergraduates in research, Dr. Emborg is selected to receive a UW-Madison Award in Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities!
WNPRC highlights Dr. Emborg’s article “Reframing the perception of outliers and negative data in translational research” What to do with negative data
2022
See photos of Julia Gambardella, Sam Neuman, and Dr. Marina Emborg at the 2022 Society for Neuroscience!
Congrats to Julia Gambardella, John Maufort, and Marina Emborg. Their photo, “Pearls of Life”, is a 2022 Cool Science Image Contest Winner!
Congratulations to Dr. Marina Emborg on her election to the 2022 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows! To read more, click here!
Congratulations to Preethi Saravanan on being awarded 2022 Honorable Mention Sophomore Scholarship Award
Congratulations to Sam Neuman on being a 2022 Barry Goldwater Scholar and for becoming part of the Board of Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation and the Department of Defense National Defense Education Program.
Congratulations to Lindsey Neumann on being a 2022 Hilldale Undergraduate awardee!
Here is the link to Dr. Schmidt and colleague’s article published by Science Translational Medicine on “Modeling genetic diseases in nonhuman primates through embryonic and germline modification: Considerations and challenges”
2021
Julia Gambardella received the 2020-2022 Predoctoral Fellowship through NIH CTSA – UW Madison, Institute for Clinical and Translation Research “Two trainees-Two trainers” Program!
Anthony Mancinelli received the 2021 Summer Student Fellowship from Parkinson’s Foundation
Sam Neuman awarded 2021 Hilldale Undergraduate Award recipient!
Read Rachael Lee’s article in the Badger Herald about UW-Madison Researchers discovering how brain cell grafts can reverse motor and mood-related symptoms in monkeys with PD: UW Researchers develop treatment alleviating Parkinson’s symptoms in monkeys.
Read UW news article by Chris Barncard on brain cell grafts and Parkinsonian monkey’s symptoms: Individualized brain cell grafts reverse Parkinson’s symptoms in monkeys.
2020 and older
The National Institute of Health ORIP highlights Dr. Marina Emborg, her WNPRC lab team, and their UW-Madison Colleagues’ advances in detecting heart disease in Parkinson’s and evaluating new therapies that specifically target nerve disease within the human heart: New Visualization Method Gets to the Heart of Parkinson’s Disease.
Read UW news article by Chris Barncard on Vermilyea and colleagues’ report on their CRISPR/Cas9 worktargeting the LRRK2 gene: Cells carrying Parkinson’s mutation could lead to new model for studying disease.
Read UW news article by Chris Barncard on Metzger and Colleagues research on the heart and PD: Researchers trace Parkinson’s damage in the heart.
Read UW news article by Chris Barncard where Jeanette Metzger’s graduate work is highlighted at the 2019 commencement: Friday ceremony inspires with words from honorary degree recipients.
Read this UW News article by Chris Barncard to learn about Resnikoff and colleagues’ discovery on “Inflamed monkey guts produce Parkinson’s-related proteins”
Watch “Dance Your Ph.D. 2017: Swallowing in Parkinson’s Disease” by Corinne Jones and her TedTalk on “Swallowing with Parkinson’s”
Editor-in-chief at Mary Ann Leibert, inc., Dr. Graham Parker’s blog features Scott Vermilyea’s Stem Cell paper on the cover of Cells and Development: LinkedIn Blog
Dr. Emborg receives the Bernard Sanberg Memorial Award in Brain Repair (2016)
Congrats to Dr. Scott Vermilyea whose photo “Gulliver’s Brain” was chosen as a winner in the 2015 Cool Science Image Contest. Vermilyea S, Guthrie S, Golos T, Emborg ME. Image was also awarded The Scientist, Image of the Day (http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/43964/ title/ Image-of-the-Day–Monkeying-Around/). The image is now also part of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Stem Cell Section http://www.britannica.com/science/stem-cell
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