A collection of news items from recent UAHS Announcements:
Faculty needed to help select COM-Tucson Class of 2020
The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson hit a medical school application milestone on Oct. 20 with 6,000 applications (and counting) for the Class of 2020.
This increase means even more applicants will be invited to campus for the Multiple Mini Interview (MMI), and we need our faculty to help serve as evaluators during the interviews.
MMI sessions are held Fridays and Saturdays and takes less than 2.5 hours.
For a list of available dates/times and to sign up for a MMI session, contact Cassandra Votruba — cbotruba@medadmin.arizona.edu or 520-626-6214.
Jennifer Barton Named Interim Director of UA's BIO5 Institute
Renowned biomedical engineer and former BIO5 Institute assistant director Jennifer Barton, PhD, was named interim director of the institute, following the selection of Fernando D. Martinez, MD, former BIO5 director, as inaugural director of the UA Health Sciences’ Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center.
For the latest BIO5 e-newsletter, click here.
EVENTS
Monday, Oct. 26, 9-10 a.m.
Cancer Biology Seminar Series: “Early Phase Clinical Evaluation of Breast Cancer Preventive Agents”
Speaker: H.H. Sherry Chow, PhD, Research Professor, UA Department of Medicine
UA Cancer Center’s Kiewit Auditorium
Monday, Oct. 26, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Mindshare Miniseries: “Open Innovation at Sanofi”
Speaker: Ken Wertman, PhD, VP & site director, Sanofi Tucson Research Center
Sponsors: UA Health Sciences Office of Biomedical Corporate Alliances, Sanofi and Tech Launch Arizona
A light lunch will be served; RSVP to ricksilva@email.arizona.edu
MRB 102 (next to BIO5)
Tuesday, Oct. 27, noon (AZ time)
Arizona State Office of Rural Health and Southwest Telehealth Resource Center WEBINAR
“ACA Update: An Introduction to the AzCRH Navigator Consortium”
Speaker: Daniel Derksen, MD, director of the UA Center for Rural Health (CRH), and professor at the UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
To learn more or register, click here.
Tuesday, Oct. 27, noon
Lecture: “Insight into Peroxisomal Disorders from Exome Sequencing and Drosophila Genetics”
Speaker: Michael Wangler, MD, assistant professor, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
Pediatrics Board Room, UACOM 3303
Wednesday, Oct. 28, noon-1 p.m.
Lunch & Learn: “Sequencing-based RNA Profiling from Challenging Samples – Learn about the HTG EdgeSeq system”
Speaker: Dr. Deb Thompson
Sponsored by the UA Genetics Core; RSVP to mforzano@htgmolecular.com
UA Cancer Center Room 2920
Thursday, Oct. 29, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Arizona Health Equity Conference – “Building Bridges: Connecting Communities in Research, Practice and Policy”
View agenda for this statewide conference. Learn more.
Desert Willow Conference Center, Phoenix, AZ
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 7:30-9:30 a.m.
Arizona Health Sciences Library Open House – "Showcasing Research Support Services"
Sponsored by UA Libraries and TechLaunch Arizona; a light breakfast will be served; learn more.
Coffee Bar area (inside AHSL)
Nov. 9, 11 and 13, 9 a.m. - noon
“R for Life Scientists - An introduction to the R scripting language”
Presenter: Jeffrey Oliver, PhD, Bioinformationist, UAHS Library
Register at: http://tinyurl.com/RWorkshopNov2015
Arizona Health Sciences Library