Melissa Simon
Position title: Business Engagement Director
Email: melissa.simon@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-262-7840

On February 10, Aldevron hosted a virtual celebration of its lab facility expansion in Madison. Aldevron produces the raw materials that allow clients to make groundbreaking therapies, and its protein business unit has operated within …
Powered by a top-ranked research program, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, its affiliate organizations and the startup companies coming out of the university have a total $30.8 billion annual statewide economic impact, equivalent to nearly 9% …
While economic uncertainty and the changes to daily life caused by the global pandemic have created countless challenges for business owners across many sectors, startup companies founded by UW–Madison innovators have managed to demonstrate resilience. Since its inception in 2014, UW–Madison’s Discovery to Product (D2P) office has helped launch or grow 56 startup companies led by campus innovators. This number includes 27 existing startups that received assistance over the past fiscal year (July 2019 – June 2020), and 8 new startup companies recently launched during that same period.