FacultyResearch January 26, 2022 · 1 min read Skala to develop new imaging approach for retinal diseases Melissa Skala, a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has landed a grant from the National Eye Institute to develop a new imaging method for quantifying melanin levels in human eyes. The…
Faculty July 2, 2020 · 1 min read Skala, Kats to attend Frontiers of Engineering Symposium The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering will be well represented at the National Academy of Engineering’s 2021 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Melissa Skala, an associate professor of biomedical engineering, is a committee member…
FacultyResearch May 18, 2020 · 1 min read Skala’s group explores fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Melissa Skala and members of her lab have published a review paper examining fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) in the Journal of Biomedical Optics. FLIM is an imaging technique for…
FacultyResearch February 21, 2020 · 4 min read Skala developing technology to support emerging cancer therapies Emerging cell therapies are giving hope to cancer patients. But to guide the process, new analytical tools are desperately needed. UW-Madison biomedical engineering professor Melissa Skala and her team are working on developing those tools….
FacultyResearch June 22, 2018 · 1 min read Skala part of effort to personalize colorectal cancer treatments Melissa Skala, an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is a co-investigator on a University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center and McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research study backed by a five-year, $3 million…
FacultyResearch June 3, 2020 · 2 min read Detecting cellular diversity to sharpen personalized cancer treatments Individual cancer patients possess their own unique biological quirks, variations that can guide treatment plans. Melissa Skala Inside each patient, individual cells can also differ, even within the same organ and among the same cell…
FacultyResearch May 28, 2019 · 3 min read Novel imaging tech brings together Madison, Milwaukee vision researchers A Madison-Milwaukee scientific partnership is powering an effort to better understand the complicated mechanics of human vision. Melissa Skala, a Morgridge Institute for Research investigator and UW-Madison professor of biomedical engineering, develops applications in photonics-based…
FacultyResearch April 14, 2017 · 3 min read Morgridge, UW researcher scores in cancer research ‘lightning round’ Scientists get funded for their ideas through a marathon grant-writing process, scores of collaborators, weeks of information gathering and a final product that often tops 250 pages. Melissa Skala’s experience was different: two people, 250…
Moonshot Engineering tomorrow's cures Research September 22, 2026 · 6 min read New imaging technique reveals the inner workings of immune cells When a patient is facing certain cancers or an immune condition, clinicians turn to their white blood cells for clues about the progression of both diseases and their treatments. From a standard blood draw, a…
Moonshot Engineering tomorrow's cures Faculty September 2, 2026 · 4 min read Focus on new faculty: Jonathan Soucy eyes new approaches to restore vision As a young child in Lewiston, Maine, Jonathan Soucy squinted and stumbled until, at age 4, doctors belatedly diagnosed him with a congenital cataract in his left eye. While he underwent surgery shortly thereafter to…