Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)

1) warf supports uw-madison through ongoing operational and functional support, a core annual base grant, and additional year-to-year grants. Warf is a nearly century-old, independent, nonprofit supporting organization that has provided direct operational support that most public universities must provide themselves, including serving as uw-madison's designated patent management organization; holding and managing educational and research-related assets; providing educational programming; and connecting the wider community to scientific Research at uw-madison. Since the great depression, warf's annual base grant has supported pivotal campus activities such as faculty recruitment and retention, graduate fellowships, and grants-in-aid for Research projects. Over subsequent decades, warf grew to provide support that reaches into every corner of uw-madison's innovation ecosystem, including funding buildings and equipment to improve campus Research and maintain uw-madison's excellence.

2) in addition to uw-madison's public Research mission, warf also supports the morgridge institute for Research (morgridge), a private medical Research organization functionally integrated with uw-madison, through both grant funding and direct operational support, including technology transfer activities. Founded in 2006, morgridge uses its private status and streamlined organizational structure to respond nimbly to emerging opportunities to improve human health through innovative, interdisciplinary biomedical discoveries. Warf's support of morgridge creates a culture in partnership with uw-madison that enables rigorous biomedical Research, sparks curiosity, and serves society through translational outcomes.