News releases

Feb. 25, 2008

TO: Editors, news directors
FROM: Janet Kelly, (608) 890-1491, jkelly@morgridgeinstitute.org
RE: TIP/JAMES THOMSON CELEBRATION EVENT AND NEWS CONFERENCE

A news conference will be held at 4:15 p.m. today at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Health Sciences Learning Center, 750 Highland Avenue, in Lecture Room 1325 located off the atrium, for an announcement that will feature:

- James Thomson, stem cell pioneer and UW-Madison professor of anatomy;

- Carl Gulbrandsen, chair, Morgridge Institute for Research Board of Trustees and managing director, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation;

- John and Tashia Morgidge, UW-Madison alumni and donors, members of the Morgridge Institute for Research Board of Trustees.

The news conference will be followed in the same location by a 5-6 pm "UW-Madison Discovery of the Year Celebration," honoring Thomson and his research team's isolation of human-induced pluripotent stem cells, published November, 2007. Reporters are invited to both events.

Public parking is available just south of the Health Sciences Learning Center in the University Hospital (UWHC) Patient/Visitor Lot. Directions and maps are available at: http://www.hslc.wisc.edu/about/maps.php.
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