Local vaccine research and development firm FluGen Inc. is getting a $250,000 loan from the state to help in the development of a bird flu vaccine. Gov. Jim Doyle announced the Technology Venture Fund loan to FluGen on Wednesday.
(UW-Madison professor of virology Yoshi Kawaoka was a co-founder of FluGen, along with Gabriele Neumann, an associate scientist at the School of Veterinary Medicine)