The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, known for helping the University of Wisconsin commercialize discoveries such as vitamin D enrichment, a blood-thinning drug and stem cells, may seem like a solid presence on campus whose existence was never in doubt.
Vitamin D fortification was WARF's first licensed technology.
Stabilizers allow salt to be iodized longer.
Warfarin, a blood-thinning drug, is also a rat poison.
Dale E. Wurster poses with a cylinder used to coat pills.
Irwin Goldman shows full-flavored beets.
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Charles Mistretta improves medical-imaging techniques.
Gurindar S. Sohi helps speed computer processors.
UW Solution preserves organs like a canine kidney.
Ann Palmenberg, left, with Kelly Watters, invents an RNA tool.
Stem cells form neural tissue in the lab.
Yoshi Kawaoka works to improve flu vaccines.
Lynn Allen-Hoffmann develops synthetic skin grafts.





