Researchers at the University of Arizona Cancer Center's Skin Cancer Institute are spending countless hours researching new medicines to battle melanoma. “Ultimately the things I’m doing are experimental. I'm the guy who tries to come up with novel weapons on a molecular basis,” said Georg Wondrak, a professor at the College of Pharmacy and a research member at the UArizona Cancer Center.

The gift will fund training for practitioners of Indigenous healing traditions and those working in underserved communities.

The Health Sciences Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion promotes increased awareness of LGBTQ+ issues with activities that cultivate empathy.

New studies suggest that teens and preteens may be cooling on vapes. Ivo Abraham, a professor at the College of Pharmacy, sees “some signals of growing awareness that this is not healthy.”

The College has advanced several spots over the past year based on significant increases in research funding.

Dr. Joann Sweasy discusses what inspired her to become a cancer researcher, how research has evolved and what the future looks like for the UArizona Cancer Center.

UArizona College of Nursing has received a new $30,000 grant to support students in the Doctor of Nursing Practice program.

Frank A. von Hippel, a professor of environmental health sciences in the Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, and Joe Schwarcz of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society, discuss the unknown environmental and health ramifications from harmful chemicals.

The Novavax vaccine differs from other Covid-19 vaccines because it already has the spike protein of the virus but it cannot cause the actual disease. ”I would love to see that vaccine here, it’s much more easily stored and transported, it would make it a lot easier to get that type of vaccine out to the rest of the world as well,” said Deepta Bhattacharya, an immunobiologist at the College of Medicine – Tucson.