Waisman Center Names Albee Messing Director

Albee Messing, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of comparative biosciences and an international leader in research on Alexander disease, has been named director of the Waisman Center. The Waisman Center is a research hub within UW-Madison’s Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education and focuses on research, clinical care, training and outreach related to developmental disabilities and neurodegenerative diseases. Messing was appointed interim director of the center in May 2014. He replaced Marsha Mailick. Messing has been a Waisman Center investigator since 1998. He has held numerous leadership positions there during his tenure, including . . .