Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) is an interdisciplinary research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Our mission is to discover and inspire through innovative research conducted in a dynamic, collaborative community. WID advances frontiers of knowledge, accelerates development of solutions, and engages the State of Wisconsin.

We bring together researchers from a broad array of disciplines with the goal of creating unlikely partnerships and catalyzing new ways of thinking. Our researchers are engaged in basic and applied research in the areas of biology, biomedical science, epigenetics, scientific visualization, psychology, and data science.