News Releases

‘Revolutionary’ New Class Challenges UArizona Students to Cure Alzheimer’s Disease

Nov. 1, 2019

The University of Arizona Health Sciences is offering innovative curricula for students to influence human health and build entrepreneurial skills.

May Khanna, PhD, left, uses 3D glasses to help visualize a molecule created in her lab. Graduate student David Donald Scott observes. Photo by Nadia Whitehead / UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson

Study Finds Inflammatory Protein Can Protect Against Spread of Herpes Virus

Oct. 28, 2019

UA College of Medicine – Phoenix researchers discover protein function that can improve current therapeutics.

UA Cancer Center Receives $8.6M Grant to Lead One of Three NCI Clinical Trials Networks

Oct. 23, 2019

The National Cancer Institute will fund the UA Cancer Prevention Clinical Trials Network, one of three networks in the nation to perform early-phase cancer-prevention clinical trials.

UA College of Medicine – Phoenix Study Calls for Forensic Nursing Exams to Include Concussion Evaluation

Oct. 23, 2019

TBIs often missed on routine forensic examination for domestic violence victims.

‘Take Charge Diabetes Mellitus’ Study Seeks Research Volunteers

Oct. 22, 2019

The University of Arizona Department of Family and Community Medicine is recruiting current Banner – University Medicine patients with Type 2 diabetes to join a study about diabetes management and blood sugar control.

Banner – University Medical Center Tucson earns comprehensive stroke center status

Oct. 21, 2019

Banner – University Medical Center Tucson is the first certified comprehensive stroke center in Tucson.

Preventing Health-care-Associated Infections Focus of UA Health Sciences Researcher

Oct. 16, 2019

Marc Verhougstraete, PhD, assistant professor and environmental microbiologist at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, received a $510,000 CDC research grant to focus on the prevention of health-care-associated infections, a serious threat to patient safety.

Blood-Collection Device Makes Radiation Testing Quick and Easy

Oct. 16, 2019

Developed by a research team at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, the self-collection device quickly can evaluate radiation exposure and help triage emergency treatment in the event of a nuclear attack or accident.

$5M Gift from Leonard A. Lauder Advances Research to Prevent and Cure Ovarian Cancer

Oct. 15, 2019

The funding will benefit clinical and translational research in the University of Arizona Cancer Center lab of Dr. David Alberts.

UA Steele Children's Research Center Leads Statewide Study of Congenital Heart Defects

Oct. 14, 2019

The University of Arizona Division of Pediatric Cardiology Congenital Heart Program will explore the public health problem of congenital heart defects among children, adolescents and adults.