Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Giizhik Klawiter has autism and began drawing at six years old as a therapeutic outlet. For the last five years, Giizhik and his brother Mino have designed holiday greeting cards and sold them in their hometown of Hayward, Wis. with the help of their mother, Pam Miller. The colorful and unique cards provide an opportunity …
Giizhik Klawiter has never been so much as a visitor to the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Waisman Center, but the 10-year-old boy with autism from Hayward, Wis., is one of the most faithful supporters of the center's developmental disabilities research.
Over two thousand people participated in Dylan's Run on September 11th, 2011 in Milwaukee.
"Don’t give up, my love, or I’ll give up with you, because I only live to see the fulfillment of this dream: that you may continue to live. Yours is a life sentence, not a death sentence.”
$20,000 Will Go Toward Stem-cell Research Karen Rivedal, Wisconsin State Journal UW–Madison’s Waisman Center will get about $20,000 to help pay for stem-cell research from a fund-raiser organized by a UW–Madison graduate who was paralyzed in a fall. David Busta, a 1997 graduate, raised the money with his friends and family in the second annual …
Proceeds of $105,000 from the Evening of Hope, a fund raiser held in Milwaukee earlier this year, will support the ALS research of Clive Svendsen, Ph.D., a UW–Madison professor of neurology and anatomy and an investigator in the Waisman Center’s Molecular and Genetic Sciences Unit. Svendsen’s lab is pursuing multiple scientific tracks involving stem cells …
