Featured Spotlights
The FlexTech Alliance team—which includes the University of Arizona Center on Aging, Interdisciplinary Consortium on Advanced Motion Performance (iCAMP) and Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA)—will be working to improve devices for the electronic wearable technology market...
Diabetic foot ulcers are more costly to treat than the five leading cancers. In response, UAHS physician-scientists David Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD, and Marvin Slepian, MD, have begun discussions with Cuban researchers to steward the FDA approval for a diabetic foot ulcer healing drug for use in the United States.
Dr. Heidi Mansour and her team investigate and design innovative treatments, including new drugs and advanced delivery mechanisms, for lung diseases with unmet medical needs. Their work on lung surfactants translates to therapeutic inhalation aerosols that led to advanced dry powder inhalers.
A UA researcher and clinician team has discovered that genetic mutations in a protein associated with asthma can affect a person’s susceptibility to a variety of lung diseases, and could lead to new treatments.
Cardiology's Dr. Marvin J. Slepian and Optical Sciences' James Wyant join those who have impacted quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Earlier this year, Dr. Slepian helped launch the Arizona Center for Accelerated Biomedical Innovation and he was recently recognized by NIH bioengineering unit...
UA research team studying the anti-inflammatory impact of turmeric is moving the project out of the laboratory and into patient testing.
The first gastroenterology fellows at the University of Nevada School of Medicine in Las Vegas begin cycling through on a one-month rotation at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in a new ACGME-approved affiliation to complete their clinical hepatology training in Tucson.
Cheers to nephrologist Bijin Thajudeen, MD, a UA assistant professor of medicine and the first physician in Tucson or Phoenix to sign and return his BUMG Physician Employment Agreement. He also has been named a Key Clinical Educator in the UA Department of Medicine...
Dr. Kent Kwoh, director of the UA Arthritis Center, is named by the University of Arizona Asian American Faculty, Staff and Alumni Association as the recipient of its 2015 Outstanding Faculty Award, to be presented Nov. 7 at the group’s 26th annual gala at the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center.
UA researchers were awarded a $1.5 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the NIH to develop an Upper Extremity Frailty Device to identify elderly patients who may be at high risk for certain medical treatments...