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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Zhen Xu took a research risk. Jim Adox bet his career on it. The result: A new field called histotripsy and a growing company with a non-invasive liver cancer treatment. -
Chicago-based NuMat is the first company to successfully commercialize Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), one gram of which has the surface area of a football field. -
Graham Colditz is an internationally known breast cancer prediction expert. Joy Jiang is a biostatistician. Together they created Prognosia’s cutting edge software. -
John Rinaldi’s brush with a famous business expert got him out of the engineering department and into marketing. Then his factory automation products began to take off. -
An Ohio State University professor started StormImpact to help utilities answer these types of questions. Then he became its top sales person. -
How two Iowa professors pioneered and commercialized a tumor-imaging and tumor-killing treatment that sends two forms of radioactive lead into the body. -
Ben Ivers co-founded Tenon, an marketing automation company that helps teams collaborate on campaigns that use emails and texts to drive engagement -
The Madison company, which uses AI to analyze medical tests and help identify and treat sleep disorders, has the largest sleep data repository in the world. -
Jord Biosciences’ large library of soil microbes helps protect, stimulate and feed plants. -
Pearl Street Technologies’ software is helping shrink the backlog of solar, wind and other new power projects waiting to get connected to the electric grid.
