Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is a nonprofit organization that manages and licenses inventions and discoveries made by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Its role is to protect intellectual property, such as patents, and help bring innovations to market, benefiting society and supporting research funding. WARF helps researchers commercialize their work by connecting them with companies, ensuring that new technologies can be developed into products or therapies, while also generating revenue that supports ongoing university research and education initiatives.