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Research Areas

Animal Model Systems

  • Wisconsin Miniature Swine – WMS™
  • Familial Hypercholesterolemia – WMS-FH™
  • Surgical models
  • Custom Transgenesis and Gene Editing
  • Model system cell lines

Research and Preclinical Programs

Xenotransplantation

  • avoiding immune activation against xenografts

Cardiovascular Diseases

  • atherosclerosis, heart disease, stroke, effects of diet

Cancer

  • diagnostic and therapeutic technologies, novel imaging modalities, surgical and radiological innovations, theranostics

Wound Healing and Regenerative Medicine

  • burn wounds, volumetric muscle loss, peripheral nerve regeneration, orthopedics

Metabolic Disease

  • diabetes, obesity

Reproductive Health

  • postmenopausal syndrome