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Dr. Laura Micek-Galinat Joins UArizona Family and Community Medicine, Banner – University Medicine

Feb. 4, 2020

With additional expertise in culinary medicine and integrative medicine, Dr. Micek-Galinat will provide primary patient care at the Banner – University Medicine Family Medicine Clinic at Alvernon.

Taking ‘Do No Harm’ to Heart

Feb. 4, 2020

By “reprogramming” a patient’s cells to create new heart muscle cells, Health Sciences MD-PhD Candidate Ike Royal Chinyere and his mentor Steven Goldman, MD, are finding ways to improve treatments for heart-failure patients.

Ike Chinyere solders wiring for a cardiac electrophysiology model to study heart arrhythmias. Steven Goldman, MD, and Elizabeth Juneman, MD, research mentors, in background.

Health Sciences Lab Provides Hands-On Experience for High School Students to Postdocs

Feb. 1, 2020

The Slepian Lab is a fertile ground for cultivating future scientists, welcoming high school students and undergrads into the fold.

Left to right: Alice Sweedo, PhD candidate; Samuel Miller-Gutierrez; Daniel Palomares (PhD student); and Marvin J. Slepian, MD

Tomorrow’s Primary Care Providers Honored at Tucson Scholarship Reception - Jan. 31, 2020

Jan. 31, 2020

Caylan Moore, left, and Kaloni Philipp, right, watch on as Naiby Rodriguez, center, hugs China Rae Newman after the Primary Care Physician scholarship reception at El Rio in Tucson, Ariz.

A Genetic Approach to Treating Glioblastoma

Jan. 30, 2020

University of Arizona Health Sciences scientists hope they have made progress toward a drug that may slow tumor growth and boost radiation’s effectiveness in patients with the deadly brain cancer.