Morgridge Institute for Research

We are a biomedical research institute working toward a fundamental understanding of biology to drive the next advances in human health. We are a catalyst to take science further in collaboration with UW–Madison. The Morgridges and WARF provided the lead gifts that made the institute possible. The Morgridge Science Communication Incubator Lab questions why scientists may or may not be willing to pursue public engagement opportunities. Improve human health through innovative, interdisciplinary biomedical discoveries, spark scientific curiosity and serve society through translational outcomes, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Beginning in 2004, the partners developed the innovative private research institute model and laid the foundation for the institute’s charter in 2006. With support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Morgridge investigator Randy Bartels will be on a quest to break the “ballistic barrier” in biomedical imaging to peer more deeply into living tissue.