Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Children with Down syndrome can face many challenges - health problems, hearing impairments and learning disabilities, including those affecting language development.
The Friends present two student awards each year at an annual reception for Waisman Center faculty, staff, students, members of the Friends, and supporters. The award consists of a certificate and $500. The 2002 reception will take place on Tuesday, August 13 on the 8th floor of the Waisman Center. Alvin L. Berman and Ruth …
Waisman Center scientist Albee Messing participated in a recent study that pinpointed the cause of certain types of muscular dystrophy that involve brain abnormalities. Messing’s lab created one of the critical strains of mice utilized in the study, which was reported in the July 25 issue of the journal Nature. Piecing together a biochemical and …
UW-Madison scientist and brainiac Su-Chun Zhang has raised the stakes -- and astonished the world -- by proving it's possible to grow the healthy brain cells that could one day repair damage caused by everything from strokes to disease to spinal cord injuries. When UW wins the race to cure chronic diseases, he and James Thomson will be crossing the finish line together."
Dr. Jon Wolff, a researcher at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin – Madison, has been elected to serve on the board of the American Society for Gene Therapy. Although the ASGT is only five years old, the organization already has over 3,000 members from around the world. Dr. Wolff is the first gene therapist …
Ruth Litovsky has developed a hearing test that simulates the noisy real world, and the results could improve our understanding not only of hearing but also of developmental and learning disabilities among children.
Today in the Wisconsin State Journal an article by the science reporter Ron Seely said that two grants from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research are going to Waisman stem-cell researchers.
Using stem cells as a window to the earliest developmental processes in the human brain, scientists have found that a group of genes critical for brain development is selectively disrupted in Down syndrome.
In a set of meticulous experiments, scientists have demonstrated the ability of human embryonic stem cells to develop into nascent brain cells and, seeded into the intact brains of baby mice, further develop into healthy, functioning neural cells.
Marsha Mailick Seltzer, PhD, professor of social work and acting director of the UW–Madison Waisman Center, received the 2001 Distinguished Research Award from The Arc of the United States at its annual convention in New Orleans on October 19. Seltzer was honored along with her research associate Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, Ph.D., associate dean and professor …
