Shirin Doroudgar, PhD, works as an assistant professor in the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix’s Department of Internal Medicine and is an active member of the Translational Cardiovascular Research Center, where she leads a research group in cardiac molecular biology, focused on understanding changes in protein homeostasis and cellular stress responses that contribute to heart disease.
Dr. Cynthia Miranti, PhD, and her team are doing just that by developing the first successful Prostate-on-a-Chip model that recreates the development and differentiation processes that occur in a normal human prostate gland.
For four decades, John Galgiani, MD, has pioneered translational research and clinical care for Valley fever, a disease more common in Arizona than anywhere else.
Biomedical implants, such as breast implants and pacemakers, improve patient health and quality of life but may be rejected as foreign bodies. Suppressing production of an immune protein could reduce this risk.
Since opening in spring 2022, the UArizona SensorLab has supported nearly 25 research projects with over 250 unique sensors.
Researchers investigating Alzheimer’s disease are focusing on the hormone estrogen.
Dr. Bonnie LaFleur, a research professor in the University of Arizona R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy, has been appointed to a five-year term on the Data Safety Monitoring Committee for the National Institutes of Health Common Fund’s Nutrition for Precision Health, powered by the All of Us Research Program.
Meet this year's Fab 50 nurses and more winners named by the Tucson Nurses Week Foundation.
Price Fishback, Takeshi Inomata, Chris Segrin, Kathy Short and Todd Vanderah are the University of Arizona's newest Regents Professors. The university's highest faculty rank honors exceptional achievements that merit national and international recognition.
University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers are using organoids to design novel therapies and better understand cancer and rare diseases.
