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Rising Sparks: Christian Tentellino, biomedical imaging
Morgridge Postdoctoral Fellow Christian Tentellino’s academic journey brought him to Madison, Wis. to develop imaging tools aimed at revealing why solid tumors stymy immune cell treatments: “The hope of doing something relevant in the clinical field in the future is what moves me daily.”
Behind Nobel-winning IceCube discoveries, decades of high-throughput computing
UW–Madison and Morgridge Institute researchers have supported Francis Halzen’s work long before IceCube existed — an exemplar of computing collaborations that have now contributed to four Nobel Prize-winning efforts.
Eye-eating amoeba resists treatment — understanding its biochemistry could help
Acanthamoeba causes infections in the eye or brain that can lead to blindness or death. New research into the amoeba’s mitochondrial metabolism could lead to safer, more effective treatments.
