In addition to its outstanding faculty, the M.S. in Biotechnology program draws on a talented group of guest speakers. Each of the program's courses invites highly regarded professionals from across the nation to share their diverse "real world" experiences. The alphabetical list below highlights just some of the program's previous guests.
Lynn Allen-Hoffman
CEO
Stratatech Corporation
Lori Barr, J.D.
Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Nancy E. Block, PhD
Licensing Manager
WiCell Research Institute
Chris Bradfield, PhD
Professor
McArdle Cancer Research
Daniel J. Broderick
Managing Director
Mason Wells
Johanne Brunet, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Horticulture, UW-Madison
Scott Button, CFA
Partner
Venture Investors, L.L.C.
Ananda Chakrabarty
Distinguished Professor
University of Illinois - Chicago
Israel Charo, MD-PhD
Professor of Medicine, Univeristy of California - San Francisco
Cor Therapeutics (now Millenium Pharm.)
Dan Clutter
Vice President
NimbleGen Systems
Jim Collins
Eli Lilly and Company
Prasanth Darba
CEO
Spectrum Research, LLC
Sharon Dunwoody
Professor
School of Journalism & Mass Comm, UW-Madison
Michael Falk
Licensing Manager/Patent Counsel
WARF
Norm Fost
Professor
Pediatrics, UW-Madison
Joy Gander
Consultant
T.E. Brennan Company
Aaron Geist, PhD
Vice President, Business Development
PerkinElmer, Inc.
Irwin Goldman, PhD
Professor and Interim Dean
Department of Horticulture, UW-Madison
Jim Hagstrom
Co-founder and VP Scientific Operations
Mirus Corporation
Kimberly Huston
Technical Support & Training Manager, Genetic ID
Promega Corporation
Dick Hutchinson, PhD
Vice President, New Technologies
Kosan Biosciences
Barbara Israel, PhD
Chief Operating Officer
Platypus Technologies, LLC
Shawn Kaeppler, PhD
Professor
Agronomy, UW-Madison
Timothy Kamp, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine - Cardiology, UW-Madison
Daniel Kephart, PhD
Manager - Scientific Applications Dept.
Promega Corporation
Glen Kwon, PhD
Associate Professor
Pharmacy, UW-Madison
Quintin Lai, PhD
Research Analyst
Robert W. Baird & Co., Incorporated
Neil Lerner, PhD
Director
Small Business Development Center, UW-Madison
William A. Linton, PhD
Chairman and CEO
Promega Corporation
Christopher Lipinski, PhD
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
Pfizer Global R&D, Groton Labs
Patricia Lipton
Executive Director
State of Wisconsin Investment Board
Tenneille Ludwig, PhD
Associate Professor
Primate Research Center, UW-Madison
Thomas "Rock" Mackie
CEO/co-founder
TomoTherapy, Inc.
Deborah Malewicki, PhD
Director of WISC
Wisconsin Innovation Service Center
Tim Matheson
Vice President
Baird Venture Partners
John McClure
Managing Director
Madison Investment Advisors
Clark Miller, PhD
Assistant Professor
LaFollette School of Public Affairs, UW-Madison
Jim Mohrbacher
Business Development Manager
Madison Gas & Electric Company
Rick Morgan
President
Morgan Marketing Partners
Timothy Mulcahy, PhD
Associate Dean for the Graduate School
University of Wisconsin Graduate School
Nadine Nassif, PhD
Research Scientist
Promega Corporation
Lori Nicholson
Regulatory Affairs Consultant
Powderject Vaccines, Inc.
Terry Opgenorth, PhD
Divisional Vice President
Abbott Laboratories
Brian Pollok, PhD
Vice President of Research and Development
Invitrogen
Steve Pullara, CPA
Accountant and Partner
Smith & Gesteland
Stephen Sanborn, PhD
Research and Development Scientist
Syngenta Crop Protection
Roger "Dusty" Sarazan, PhD
Director, Safety Pharmacology
Covance Laboratories, Inc.
Nicholas J. Seay
Attorney and Partner
Quarles & Brady
Hemanth Shenoi, PhD
Product Manager, Industrial Diagnostics
Promega Corporation
Michael Shortreed, PhD
Associate Scientist
Department of Chemistry, UW-Madison
Steven Slater, PhD
Lead Researcher
Agracetus, subsidiary of Monsanto Corp.
Russell Smestad, PhD
President
Mirus Bio Corporation
Lloyd Smith, PhD
Professor
Department of Chemistry, UW-Madison
Daniel L. Stahl
President
Human Resources Group, LLC
Rodney Stevenson, PhD
Professor
Grainger School of Business, UW-Madison
Robert Streiffer, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medical History and Bioethics, UW-Madison
James Thomson, PhD
Professor
Anatomy Department, Primate Center
Jolanta Vidugiriene
Research Scientist
Promega Corporation
Mitchell Warren
Executive Director
AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC)
Jamey Weichert, PhD
CEO
Cellectar
John Wolff, PhD
Professor at UW-Madison
Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder of Mirus Corporation
Mirus Corporation
Bill Young
Managing Director
Wipfli Accountants and Advisors
Brian Zambrowicz, PhD
Executive Vice President, Research
Lexicon Genetics
High-profile guest speakers, such as Dr. Ananda Chakrabarty from University of Illinois-Chicago, give our students unprecedented access to biotechnology leaders and science experts.
The de novo curriculum of the M.S. in Biotechnology is unique in the world for its fully integrated approach to studying the science, the business, the law and ethics of biotechnology.