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Anti-Cancer Immune Response may be Boosted with Combination Therapy, UA Cancer Center Lab Helps Discover The University of Arizona Cancer Center collaborated with researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina to uncover better ways to harness the immune system to fight cancer. |
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Two UA College of Nursing Professors Selected to Fulbright Specialist Roster The three-year grants from the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and World Learning National enable the faculty members the opportunity to undertake academic activities in more than 140 countries. |
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New Faculty Members Join UA Family and Community Medicine and Banner – University Medicine Clinical psychologists Jacob N. Hyde, PsyD, and Janelle Thompson, PsyD, will provide a wide array of behavioral health services for patients of all ages across Tucson. |
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Why Women? — Studying the Role of Gender in Alzheimer’s Disease Roberta Diaz Brinton, PhD, inaugural director of the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, received $5.9 million from the National Institute on Aging to study the role of gender in Alzheimer’s disease and develop precision medicine interventions to prevent — and potentially reverse — the course of the disease in both women and men. |
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UA’s Mobile Health Program Receives $450K Gift From Banner Health Foundation The funds will enable the UA Department of Family and Community Medicine’s Mobile Health Program to provide more than 2,300 additional patient visits. |
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UA’s Dr. Ann Baldwin Honored with Humanitarian Heart Award The professor of physiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson was recognized by the HeartMath Institute for her teaching on mind-body balance and research on stress reduction and using equine therapy to promote the healing, enrichment and well-being of others |
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First Statewide Study Shows More Cardiac Arrests Due to Opioid Overdoses UA medical students’ research shows tragic impact on young people who abuse opioids. |
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UA Researchers Lead Study to Encourage Children With Asthma to Use their Inhalers UA researchers are studying if the combination of dispensing asthma inhalers (corticosteroids) in the emergency department and supervising their use in elementary schools will increase the medication’s use among children with asthma and decrease emergency department visits. |
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UA Researchers Developing 15-Minute MRI UA engineers are using a $2.1 million grant to improve scanning technologies for challenging patient populations. |
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UA Scientists Discover Diabetes Drug Could be Used to Treat Common Heart Failure Syndrome A cardiovascular research team at the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center investigated in a lab model whether metformin, a common diabetes drug, could be an effective treatment for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). The researchers found that the drug reduced left ventricular stiffness, thereby improving capacity for exercise. Metformin relaxes the left ventricle by making a heart muscle protein called titin more compliant. |
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With a Nurse in their Corner, ‘Navigating’ Care Is Getting Easier for Cancer Patients Banner Health nurse navigators at the University of Arizona Cancer Center are paired with patients to guide them through their cancer journeys. |
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UA Chemical Biologists Unearth Cause of a Rare Brain Disorder In pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 1b, two key biological structures are blocked from binding to one another — which ultimately stunts critical brain growth. |
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National Academy of Inventors Welcomes Two UA Professors as Fellows Two distinguished University of Arizona professors and innovators have been named as National Academy of Inventors Fellows. Thomas Koch, professor and dean of the College of Optical Sciences, and Harrison Barrett, Regents’ Professor of medical imaging, optical sciences and applied mathematics, will now join a growing cadre of distinguished fellows from the UA. |
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New Faculty Join UA Family and Community Medicine and Banner – University Medicine Family medicine physicians Ashley Krauser, DO, and Ana Mendez, MD, MPH, will provide a wide array of primary care services for patients of all ages across Tucson. |
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Reconnecting the Disconnected: UA Physiology Professor Receives $1.2M NIH Grant to Use AI to Restore Movement in Paralyzed Limbs When a person is paralyzed by a stroke or an injury, the brain and the neuron networks that control movement become disconnected from the muscles. Dr. Andrew Fuglevand is using artificial intelligence to stimulate multiple muscles to elicit natural movement in ways previous methods have been unable to do. |
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Dr. Victoria Murrain Named Permanent Deputy Dean for Diversity and Inclusion Victoria Murrain, DO, has been promoted from interim to permanent deputy dean for diversity and inclusion at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson. |
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New Director of Scientific Programs Named for All of Us Research Program at UA-Banner Pharmacogenetics expert, Jason Hansen Karnes, PharmD, PhD, BCPS, FAHA, has been named director of scientific programs for the All of Us Research Program team at the University of Arizona and Banner Health. |
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First-Ever Clinical Trial to Treat Liver Cancer Through Immunotherapy is Accepting Patients UA Cancer Center opens clinical trial in Greater Phoenix for novel liver cancer treatment. |
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UA Center for Innovation in Brain Science Awarded Maria Shriver's The Women's Alzheimer's Movement Grant Led by Roberta Brinton, PhD, the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona Health Sciences has received one of seven research grants awarded by WAM to leading scientific institutions. The grant will allow the Center to continue its WAM-funded research begun in 2016, and to discover critical information about the long-term impact of hormone interventions on women’s risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. |
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UA Scientist Identifies Cellular Gene Signatures for Heart Muscle Regeneration A research team led by Jared Churko, PhD, director of the University of Arizona iPSC Core in the UA Sarver Heart Center, used a transcriptomic approach — studying what genes are expressed — to identify gene signatures of cell subpopulations identified as atrial-like or ventricular-like. This understanding could lead to regenerative therapy discoveries for the millions of people living with damaged heart muscle caused by heart attacks or other chronic heart conditions. |