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U of A and UNM win joint $43.6M NIH award to help turn clinical research into practical medicine

The CTSA grant, the largest infrastructure and training award from the NIH, supports the translation of research discoveries into improved patient care.

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$4.5M NIDA grant will fund research to improve methadone treatment quality

Confocal cancer cells and fibroblasts in collagen.

$1.7M DOD grant funds virtual cancer center to support research into military health

Nursing student Misty L. Pagán, DNP, poses for a photo in an outdoor setting. She is wearing a white coat over a blue dress and has a stethoscope wrapped around her neck.

From grief to purpose: How a PhD student discovered her calling in nursing

Uniquely U of A Health Sciences

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Frank G. Walter receives career achievement award from AACT

Portrait of professor Lindsay Bouchard wearing a blue jacket and smiling while standing in front of a brick wall.

Bouchard accepted into academic nursing leadership program

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Nursing’s Lisa Kiser is national nurse practitioner Fellow

Zong-Ming Li sitting at his office desk holding an anatomical model of the inside of a hand.

Zong-Ming Li named medical biological engineering fellow

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Hildebrand receives Rosalind Franklin Society award

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Erickson named research chair at nurse-midwife association

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Emerick honored for work on perinatal psychiatry hotline

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Julie Pilitsis to serve as president of neurosurgery society

Portrait of professor Rina Fox for the University of Arizona College of Nursing in an outdoor setting.

Nursing’s Fox selected for NIH randomized trials institute

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Rainbow receives U of A Distinguished Faculty Award

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Romero named to national workforce development committee

Members of the PeerWORKS and Project FUTRE team accept the Team Award for Excellence from Interim Provost Ronald Marx.

PeerWORKS and Project FUTRE earn Team Award for Excellence