News
- New AI framework reveals cooperative work behind oligodendrocyte function
February 12, 2025 - John Svaren honored with Vilas professorship
April 25, 2024 - Waisman’s Own Takes Interim Position in OVCRGE
By Emily Leclerc
December 11, 2023 - John Svaren joins research office leadership team
By Natasha Kassulke
September 11, 2023 - In the lab where sign language advances science: A spotlight on Phu Duong
By Emily Leclerc
March 29, 2023 - Cells with a superhero alter ego: Schwann cells transform into repair cells after nerve injury with help of transcription factor JUN and Sonic Hedgehog gene
By Charlene N. Rivera-Bonet
September 16, 2022
- CMT Biomarkers for Future Treatments
By Emily Leclerc, Waisman Science Writer
October 19, 2021
- CMTA Grants Researchers $1.1M to Advance Trials in CMT1X, CMT2A
by Diana Campelo Delgado, CMT News
March 26, 2021 - CMT advocate will not be sidelined
September 23, 2019 - Proposals by Waisman investigators selected for UW-Madison Cluster Hire Initiative
February 8, 2018 - Better understanding a devastating neurological disease
April 24, 2017 - A case of (peripheral) nerves
August 4, 2016 - Genome editing takes research one step closer to a cure for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
September 18, 2014 - Researchers Discover Gene Crucial for Nerve Cell Insulation
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April 16, 2007
Waisman Center Slides of the Week from John Svaren
- Metabolic requirements of formation and maintenance of myelin around peripheral nerves
April 18, 2025 - A novel structural variant affecting a gene associated with neuromuscular disease
May 10, 2024 - Injury-induced enhancers are important for induction of the Sonic Hedgehog gene in Schwann cells
April 16, 2023 - Plasma MicroRNAs as Candidate Biomarkers for CMT1A
May 9, 2022 - CRISPR-Cas9 deletion of PMP22 super enhancer creates a new model of hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP)
June 7, 2021 - Nanostring analysis with SC-specific gene normalization provides novel biomarkers for Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
July 26, 2020 - A superenhancer regulating a vital gene for myelin formation
July 22, 2019 - Mutations in the TUBB4A Gene Cause a Hypomyelinating Leukodystrophy
July 15, 2018 - Polycomb regulation of nerve injury
July 31, 2017 - The Sox10 transcriptional regulator binds genes important for myelin formation in both oligodendrocytes of the spinal cord and Schwann cells in peripheral nerves
June 14, 2016