Featured Spotlights

UA Part of National Team Picked to Lead Flexible Electronics Research

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...


UA Health Sciences Researchers Look to Collaborate With Cuba on Diabetic Wound Therapy

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.


Pharmacy Faculty Member Helps People Breathe Better

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.


UA Researchers Link Genetic Variation in Pulmonary Protein to Respiratory Disease

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 Slepian One of Two Named Fellows of Academy of Inventors

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...


Spicy New Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis Moves to Clinical Trials

UA research team studying the anti-inflammatory impact of turmeric is moving the project out of the laboratory and into patient testing.


Accreditation Alliance Allows Las Vegas GI Fellows to Learn about Liver Care at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson

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.


DOM Nephrologist Becomes BUMG Physician No. 1

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...


UA Rheumatology Chief Takes Top Asian American Faculty Award

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 Receive $1.5 Million NIH Grant to Develop Mobile, Wearable Technology to Assess Frailty

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...


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