University of Arizona BIO5 Institute researchers are working to identify traits that increase or decrease a person’s susceptibility to asthma.
This effort could some day lead to treatments – administered as early as in the womb – to prevent asthma and other diseases from occurring in people who have a tendency to get them.
Funded with a two-year, $958,544 National Institutes of Health grant, Donata Vercelli, PhD, is leading a study to identify epigenetic predictors of asthma in neonates.Asthma, a chronic inflammation of the lungs and air passages that affects the ability to breath, affects 15 percent of the population and is a growing health problem, Vercelli said.
On January 13, 2010 at the White House, President Obama honored 100 outstanding early career scientists, including BIO5 member Felicia Goodrum, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Immunobiology in the UA College of Medicine and the only Arizonan selected for the award. These outstanding scientists are the latest winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) —the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. Dr. Goodrum is one of 12 recipients from the National Institutes of Health.
The Infectious Disease Research Core (IDRC) has some suggestions for staying healthy during the 2009‐2010 flu season. The IDRC designs, develops, validates, implements, and performs evidence-based assessment of new laboratory methods, with the goal of diagnosing, treating and preventing infectious diseases and public health threats.
On Thursday, December 3rd, 2009, Dr. Fernando Martinez was formally inducted as a UA Regents' Professor.
The designation of Regents' Professor is the highest of faculty ranks and is reserved for full professors with exceptional achievements that have brought them national or international recognition. "Regents' Professors are expected to exemplify the highest objectives and standards of the University through their scholarship, research or creative activities, and teaching," stated UA President Dr. Robert Shelton.
On January 13, 2010 at the White House, President Obama honored 100 outstanding early career scientists, including BIO5 member Felicia Goodrum, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Immunobiology in the UA College of Medicine and the only Arizonan selected for the award. These outstanding scientists are the latest winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) —the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. Dr. Goodrum is one of 12 recipients from the National Institutes of Health.