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“today I wish to honor Carl Gulbrandsen on his retirement from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF. After 19 impressive years at the foundation, 16 years as managing director, Carl committed his career to ensuring the success of WARF and its mission to support, aid, and encourage UW-Madison research by protecting its discoveries and licensing them for use around the world. Carl's journey began when he enlisted in the military during the last years of the Vietnam war. Carl was stationed at a medical post in Germany, leading him to later obtain a Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1978. That same year, he began law school, as his medical background ignited an interest in the law and its impact on medical regulations. After serving as a litigation lawyer at the firm of Ross and Stevens for several years, Carl decided to expand his legal practice, taking the patent law exam in 1985. Carl's first case secured a patent for vitamin D metabolism, a discovery made by Heinrich Schnoes and Hector DeLuca of UW-Madison's biochemistry department, who went on to become WARF's most prolific patent holder. Guided by his academic background, Carl's patent litigation career flourished. Carl firmly believed in the ``Wisconsin Idea'': the scientific research and work done at the University of Wisconsin should benefit the State as a whole. After a decade working in private practice, Carl joined WARF in 1997 as a legal adviser.…”