2021 BIO5 Postdoctoral Fellow Rob Jackson at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson secured a pivotal National Institutes of Health grant to establish his career in virology and oral cancer.

BIO5 members Floyd "Ski" Chilton and Joel Cuello are collaborating on a project revolving around a blue-green algae-like microorganism known as spirulina that could provide nutrition to people in areas of food insecurity while addressing some of the challenges posed by climate change.

BIO5 member William “Scott” Killgore and his team will use a $3M grant from the Department of Defense to examine a noninvasive, drug-free treatment for sleep disorders.

An Oct. 30 groundbreaking ceremony marked the next step for CAMI, a biomedical research hub to be located on the Phoenix Bioscience Core. BIO5 member Deepta Bhattacharya is the inaugural executive director.

Local Tucsonan Mariam Rana found the confidence through the KEYS Research Internship to champion research experiences for fellow undergraduate students at the University of Arizona.

Inspired by the creative potential of technology, Ash Black educates students and works with researchers on AI and extended technology at the University of Arizona.

BIO5 member Vignesh Subbian is the project lead in the eCAMINOS program, which is expected to encourage more undergraduates to begin and complete engineering degrees in the next few years and ultimately fill gaps in the workforce.

A study confirmed that tissue stiffening in the most common types of breast cancer, HER2-negative, can directly cause disease progression and metastasis, leading to detrimental outcomes for patients.This link was first described in a 2021 study by BIO5 member Ghassan Mouneimne.

BIO5 member Marc Verhougstraete and his collaborator Heidi Brown at the Mel and Endi Zuckerman College of Public Health have been awarded $200,000 in supplemental funding from the National Science Foundation to join an ongoing U of A geosciences research study of deep groundwater quality called the "Subsurface Microbe-Rock-Fluid Systems" (SMRFS) project.

On October 8, over 115 University of Arizona researchers gathered to network over posters, lightning talks, and refreshments in the Thomas W. Keating building of the BIO5 Institute.