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Photo of several people chatting together in a circular room filled with examining tables in the new lab space of the University of Arizona School of Health Professions Physical Therapy and Physician Assistant studios.

Doctor of Physical Therapy Program kicks off with open house

The University of Arizona’s Physical Therapy Program introduced advanced learning studios where students will train over the next three years to enhance community health.

Repurposed multiple sclerosis drug could help bones heal faster

Repurposed multiple sclerosis drug could help bones heal faster

A doctor applies sensors to the arm of a person sitting on a bed in a sleep lab while another person monitors the sensor output on a small digital device on the wall.

Putting sleep at the center of health care

An image if two liquid chemotherapy drugs in small bottles next to a needle laying on top of a plastic collection bag

Repackaged cancer drug boosts delivery to tumors, improves combination therapies

Uniquely U of A Health Sciences

group of researchers pose in a College of Medicine – Phoenix laboratory

Researchers exploring how intimate partner violence in pregnancy can affect offspring neurodevelopment

three women working in a University of Arizona Health Sciences research laboratory

A better way to study Parkinson’s disease in the lab could lead to earlier diagnosis

A landscape portrait of Arizona desert scenery

Thomas D. Boyer Liver Institute Director to fly donations to Navajo Nation

X-ray illustration of person holding head in pain

Department of Defense grant supports study of potential treatment for traumatic brain injuries

brown bottle labeled methadone with small dose cup

Study seeks to transform methadone treatment for opioid use disorder

human T cell

$13M NIH grant funds research aimed at revitalizing immune systems of older adults

Soldiers crouching down and communicating

$1.5M DOD grant will create virtual reality test to assess TBI in the field

Students take part in a clean-up activity in Willcox, Arizona.

AZ-HOPE receives $3.2M HRSA grant to support future health care professionals

A 2018 predoctoral National Institutes of Health Translational Research in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias training grant that successfully trained 15 graduate students at the Center for Innovation in Brain Science has been renewed for five years.

NIA grant supports training of next generation of Alzheimer’s disease researchers

Student-faculty team of inventors devises tools to address orthopedic challenges

Researchers surveyed Arizona CoVHORT study participants who opted not to receive COVID-19 boosters in hopes that the results would help design interventions to help protect more people from the latest variants.

Study uncovers reasons Americans did not get booster vaccines

Van Dexter Difuntorum Calo is one of 11 medical students at the UArizona College of Medicine – Phoenix to receive a Primary Care Physician Scholarship.

Future primary care doctors receive scholarships for medical school