Chicago-area philanthropist Jolita Leonas-Arzbaecher has made a $1 million gift to advance the work of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences.
TUCSON, Ariz. – The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) has awarded a $100,000 grant to University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers to focus on promoting and increasing mammography screening among Latinas in Arizona. Jorge Gomez, MD, PhD, and Usha Menon, PhD, RN, FAAN, have been named the principal investigators for the grant, which is the first funding support that BCRF has awarded to the University of Arizona, home to the only academic health center in the state.
“Pancreatic & Liver Cancer Awareness” is the theme of the next UA Cancer Center Open House, Thursday, Oct. 27, 5-7 p.m., which is being billed as a Community Education Event by organizers within the UACC Gastrointestinal (GI) Oncology Team.
The Breast Reconstruction Awareness Day event in Tucson will be held on Oct. 22, 2016, at the Komen Arizona office, 2099 E. River Road, 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of its founding this year, the UA Sarver Heart Center will launch a monthly lecture series beginning with the new director of its Cardiac Electrophysiology Program, Mathew Hutchinson, MD, on Tuesday, Oct. 25.
Prior registration is required, but the events—to be held in DuVal Auditorium—are free and open to the public.
A total of 30 new faculty members have started their practices, teaching and/or research careers in the UA Department of Medicine since July 1, across our 13 divisions and the Informatics section under the UAHS Center for Biomedical Informatics and Biostatistics. They include a division chief, associate dean for student affairs, ICU medical director, and three investigators for the new UAHS Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism.
UA researcher Adam Buntzman: "If we were on a treasure hunt, where the cure to many illnesses is the buried treasure, then we’ve just drawn the first map of Treasure Island." (Photo: Roy Wageman/UA BioCommunications)
University of Arizona research assistant professor and immunologist Adam Buntzman, PhD, used CyVerse data sharing and analysis capabilities to lead the first team to comprehensively map the human adaptive immune system.
Robert Livingston, MD, 75, an oncologist at the University of Arizona Cancer Center and a professor of medicine in the UA Division of Hematology and Oncology, died Sept. 8 at his home. Dr. Livingston had been a professor at the UA College of Medicine – Tucson for the past decade.
Lewy bodies are tiny protein deposits in the brain named after a German doctor who first identified them. Researchers don't have a full understanding of why they appear, or how they contribute to dementia. They have linked them to low levels of important chemicals (acetylcholine and dopamine) that carry messages between nerve cells.
