Kathleen Gallagher
Midwest Moxie HostKathleen Gallagher is the host of Midwest Moxie and previously the host of How Did You Do That?.
She's a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who is Executive Director of 5 Lakes Institute, a non-profit focused on building and connecting the Great Lakes Region’s high-tech entrepreneurial economy and culture. She is also a columnist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Previously, during more than two decades as a reporter at the Journal Sentinel, Kathleen covered banking, technology and entrepreneurship and wrote a weekly Investment Trends column. In 2011, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for co-authoring a series of articles about how doctors and scientists in Milwaukee for the first time in history sequenced all the genes of a patient for diagnosis. Kathleen and co-author Mark Johnson wrote a book based on that series called One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine.
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How Claros Technologies is aims to rid the world of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
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NutriSense was first to provide continuous glucose monitors to consumers.
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Improve the health and performance of specialty crops around the world through advanced tech.
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Connecting manufacturers with live data for faster decision-making and improved processes and products.
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The Silvas developed headsets to allow doctors to see the heart they’re working on floating in front of them.
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How a company's work is transforming diesel to use clean-burning, renewable, alternative fuels.
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After exploring all seven continents and dozens of countries, Corey Jaskolski started Synthetaic to create the ChatGPT of image data in Wisconsin.
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Arnab Nandi’s research into spatiotemporal data spawned Mobikit.
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Eric Christopher founded Zylo and, in the process, invented the category of software subscription management.
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Jian-Ping Wang’s years of research paid off when the world's first ever earth-free magnet was developed.