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As the average human life span increases, it is essential to ensure a high quality of life by maintaining brain and mind health. To match the advances in prolonging life, WID researchers seek a fundamental understanding of how the human brain and mind function through -omic profiling, tissue engineering, and predictions about health and disease using electronic health records. This understanding may lead to gene editing methods to correct neural problems, drugs to treat currently untreatable diseases, and methods to protect, repair, or regenerate neural tissue. Healthy brains mean better lives. Much of WID's research contributes to the Healthy Brain Grand Challenge.
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UW–Madison to Continue Fundamental Data Science Research with Phase II Award from NSF WID News The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is home to the Institute for the Foundations of Data Science, which has received Phase II funding from the National Science Foundation. Continue Reading UW Researchers Devise Approach to Treat Rare, Incurable Form of Blindness Featured Science WID's Kris Saha was among UW–Madison researchers who have published a proof-of-concept method to correct an inherited form of macular degeneration that causes blindness, and that is currently untreatable. Continue Reading With NASA Award, PhD Student Seeks Answers to LIfe's Biggest Questions Wisconsin Stories Lena Vincent is a graduate student in David Baum's lab at WID. She studies the origin of life by searching for life-like behaviors in systems of molecules. Continue Reading Solís-Lemus Awarded Grant to Develop Statistical Theory for Soil Data WID News Assistant professor of plant pathology Claudia Solís-Lemus is a recipient of funding from the Department of Energy to develop statistical theory and tools for computational biology. Continue Reading Sridharan Earns Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award WID News Rupa Sridharan was among 24 UW professors to earn Vilas professorships and awards. The Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award recognizes research and teaching excellence and provides flexible research funding for three years. Continue Reading WID Researchers Among Data Science Institute Mini Grant Recipients WID News Jon Eckhardt, Robert Nowak, and Kevin Ponto were among the recipients of nine mini grants from the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute to advance data science. Continue Reading

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