Round 4 Projects

Seventeen  innovative projects ranging from personalizing diabetes prevention and treatment, to transforming wood into a renewable electronic material, to improving outcomes for incarcerated parents and their children, to fusion energy research that integrates optimized plasma confinement, and establishing a UWLandLab and a forecast-based flood and health disaster preparedness system, have been chosen to join the UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative cohort. Read the news story on the new round of projects.

The projects were reviewed by faculty from across the university, ultimately involving 102 reviewers. Funded projects include 125 faculty and academic staff investigators from 10 schools and colleges. The UW2020 Council, a group of faculty from all divisions of the university, evaluated the merits of each project based on the reviews and their potential for making significant contributions to their fields. Please see the links below for individual project descriptions. Download printable project descriptions.

Accelerating Lead Optimization to Clinical Application Using Microscale Thermophoresis to Quantify Molecular Interactions

Acquisition of an Illumina NovaSeq Next Generation DNA Sequencer for UW–Madison

Advancing CRISPR-mediated Genome Editing Technology at UW–Madison to Model Human Disease

All-Optical Electrophysiology-Electrophysiology without Electrodes

Building a Translational Research Pipeline to Personalize Diabetes Prevention and Treatment

Communication Ecologies, Political Contention, and Democratic Crisis

Data Science Hub for UW–Madison

Development of a Forecast-based Flood and Health Risk Management System to Support Advanced Disaster Preparedness

Fusion Energy Research at the Next Frontier: Integrating Optimized Plasma Confinement with Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering

Gene Editing Nanomedicines to Correct Pathogenic Mutations in Retinal Pigmented Epithelium

Improving Outcomes for Incarcerated Parents and their Children through Enhanced Jail Visits

Instrument Development to Study the Highest Energy Photons in the Universe

Maternal Breathing Dysfunction during Pregnancy Increases Risk for Psychiatric Disorders in Her Offspring: A Paradigm-Shifting Concept

State-of-the-Art, Reactive-Ion-Etching Instrument for Nanofabrication of Devices at UW–Madison

The UWLandLab – a Place for Ecological Solutions to Land Use Problems

Toxoplasma Infection and Brain Function

Transforming Wood into a Green, Renewable Electronic Material