The first interim director of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery will be Marsha Malick Seltzer, the director of the Waisman Center, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced today.
The institutes, planned for the 1300 block of University Ave., will be a $150 million interdisciplinary research center funded with public and private funds.
Seltzer is an expert researcher on people with developmental disabilities. She will continue as director of the Waisman Center, where scientists conduct basic and clinical biomedical and behavioral research.