The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is recruiting volunteers for a study testing a treatment that aims to help prevent the earliest memory loss due to Alzheimer’s disease.
Madison researchers are looking for people to participate in a clinical trial that is the first of its kind to study Alzheimer’s disease and memory loss. The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health announced Tuesday it was searching for volunteers for the AHEAD study, which will test an experimental drug’s effectiveness to a large group of participants.
At UW-Madison, Dave O’Connor and Thomas Friedrich are conducting similar work. For 25 years, the professors have sequenced viruses like Zika, HIV, and influenza.
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is recruiting volunteers for a Phase 3 clinical trial of a treatment aimed at stopping Alzheimer’s disease even before the first symptoms of memory loss.
Noted: Zoo veterinarians injected the bonobo in the hip with medication to render him unconscious. Then, Schroeder and a colleague, Kyle Bartholomew, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, injected Qasai with two additional medications, Lidocaine and Propofol.
The phase 1b study, to start in the second quarter of 2022, will evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of M2SR, the nasal spray vaccine FluGen is developing based on research by UW-Madison virologists Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Gabriele Neumann.
Noted: The plan green-lights an expansion of I-94 in Milwaukee and ends the 8-year-old freeze on in-state tuition at University of Wisconsin schools. It also lowers property taxes by about $100 this December for the owner of a typical home.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say that even without a vaccine mandate, they expect at least 80 percent of the campus population will be vaccinated against COVID-19 this fall.
Quoted: “Pocan has been is kind of taken up the mantle that Baldwin had kind of started in the House,” said Dave Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “And he’s been really active in the Equality Caucus in the House and played a key role in helping get that passed through the House.”
“It’s hard to overstate the impact and legacy of @UWBadgers Director Barry Alvarez,” Gov. Evers tweeted. “I’m proud to declare today Barry Alvarez Day, and on behalf of the state of Wisconsin and Badgers everywhere, I wish Director Alvarez all the best in his retirement.”
University of Wisconsin quarterback Graham Mertz tweeted out a video of a trademarked logo on Monday.
University of Wisconsin chancellor Rebecca Blank was selected as the chair of the Big Ten Conference’s Council of Presidents and Chancellors on Wednesday.
To better understand the relationship between outgoing University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez and his successor, it’s important to go back to the beginning.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences Ajay Sethi does anticipate that Wisconsin will reach the 70% mark this summer but says the goal isn’t to stop at that benchmark but to keep vaccinating.
“I do think that will start to change things,” said UW Madison Law Professor Ryan Poe-Gavlinski.
Quoted: A legal expert who spoke with FOX6 News said he understands why the Pennsylvania Supreme Court made the ruling it did.
“The victim here can’t force the prosecutor to prosecute,” said Ion Meyn, an assistant law professor at UW-Madison.
Meyn also said he disagrees with former Castor’s decision to not bring charges against Cosby in 2005.
“So at that time, she wanted to move forward when the evidence was as fresh as possible, to go through with the civil litigation. That makes sense,” Meyn said.
In extreme heat, asphalt gets soft and behaves kind of like peanut butter, says Hussain Bahia, a civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin who heads the school’s Modified Asphalt Research Center. Put it in an oven and it will become a “slush fluid,” he says. Sustained heat on roads not built for heat can lead to potholes, pockmarks, and bumps.
