Graduate School Dean Martin Cadwallader named Marsha Mailick Seltzer director of the UW-Madison Waisman Center Thursday.
The Waisman Center is one of the world's top research centers on developmental disabilities and neurodegenerative diseases.
The Waisman Center is one of nine research centers of its kind with 60 laboratories for basic and clinical biomedical and behavioral research. These include a brain imaging center, a clinical bio-manufacturing facility, early intervention and outreach programs and a school for developing children and children with disabilities.
The center was established in 1963 as the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Laboratory. It was renamed in 1973 after the late Harry Waisman, a pediatrician, biochemist and leader in mental retardation research.
Seltzer was the center's acting director for a year and a half. She came to UW-Madison in 1988 and served as coordinator for the Waisman Center's Applied Research Unit and a professor in the School of Social Work.
