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Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Center
Welcome
Molecular and Environmental Toxicology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison focuses on biochemistry, carcinogenesis, cell biology, developmental biology, genetics, genomics, immunology, neurobiology, proteomics, and xenobiotic fate and metabolism research in a collaborative, interdisciplinary community of high-caliber students, faculty members, and facilities.
Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Center
1300 University Avenue
1530 MSC
Madison, WI 53706
608-263-4580
Fax 262-5245
Email
Our Faculty In The News
2009-Aug - Cook
Aova Moves Feed Additive Invented at UW-Madison Into Asian Markets - "Along with our investment partner, Merrick's Inc., we see great things around the corner for this young company. We are pleased to support a startup promising much value and founded by one of WARF's and the UW-Madison's most successful inventors, animal scientist Mark Cook."
May 2009
Dr. Jarrard to Lead SBUR. David Jarrard M.D. has been elected president of the Society for Basic Urologic Research. The society facilitates discussion, collaborative investigations, and education on basic scientific topics and scientific advancements related to urology, emphasizing interchange of expertise among clinical and basic scientists. Doctor Jarrard is only the third physician to lead the society in its 23 year history.
05/14/09 - Cancer researcher wins Shaw Award
University of Wisconsin-Madison cancer researcher, Jing Zhang received a Shaw Scientist Award last week from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation to support her novel research on the roles cancer stem cells may play in the causes and treatment of cancer. The Shaw Award - a $200,000 unrestricted prize - provides needed support to young scholar-scientists engaged in groundbreaking research in the fields of genetics, cell biology and cancer research at a critical stage in their careers.
03/24/09 - Need surgery? The robot is in (with video and a quiz) - Every move of UW Hospital's 2,500-pound giant was being controlled at an operating room console by Dr. Jason Gee and David Jarrard. They were pioneering yet another new use of robotics - - Read More Here
02/03/09 - Madison Firm's Skin Substitute Fights Infection - A
Madison firm has developed a bacteria-fighting skin substitute that should help prevent infection from burns and other severe skin injuries. B. Lynn Allen-Hoffmann, CEO of Stratatech Corp; article published online by the journal MolecularTherapy
01/27/09 - UW researchers: Climate change could increase disease-spreading insects - Scientists from the UW-Madison and three Australian universities identified key biological and environmental factors affecting a type of mosquito that spreads dengue fever. Warren Porter
01/14/09 - University of Wisconsin Finding Could Be Way to Beat CWD Prion - A team led by researchers Joel Pedersen and Judd Aiken found that a common soil mineral -- an oxidized form of manganese -- can diminish the amount of the prion protein and also decrease the ability of the prion to malform in the way that leads to diseases such as CWD, mad cow disease and scrapie in sheep.
01/14/09 - A chink in the prion's armor - A common soil mineral degrades the nearly indestructible pathogen - Warped pathogens that lack both DNA and RNA, prions are believed to cause such fatal brain ailments as chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and moose, mad cow disease in cattle, scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
12/22/09 UW-Madison News
Two METC faculty, Bruce Klein and Jo Handelsman were honored as American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) fellows.
12/10/08 - The Capital Times
UW researchers report progress in fight against Lou Gehrig's - Lab of Jeffrey A. Johnson
Fall 2008
David Jarrard was awarded a renewal of his NIH R01 ($1,836,850) grant entitled “Modulation of IGF-II Imprinting in the Aging Prostate.” This grant investigates epigenetic causes of prostate cancer development with aging and novel approaches to preventing the disease.
METC promotes research at UW-Madison and the UW System that addresses fundamental mechanisms through which toxicants produce adverse effects; provides ways to assess or predict the impact of these agents on humans and other species; develops biological and physicochemical processes that can control releases or deplete the environment of these harmful agents. Programs of the METC are supported in part by grants T32 ES07015 and T35 ES07295 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
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COLLOQUIA
Upcoming Special Guest Speakers
12/09/09 - 1:30-2:30 Biotech Auditorium (425 Henry Mall)
Janardan Reddy, MD - Professor, Department of Pathology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. TITLE: Nuclear Receptor Coactivators in Liver Function
03/12/10
Russel J. Reiter, PhD, Dr. h.c. mult. Cellular & Structural Biology; UT Health Sciences Center
Friday 03/12/10
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Biotechnology Auditorium
TITLE: TBA
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