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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

Dr. Ted Tong builds bridges for Asian Americans

The University of Arizona College of Nursing’s Tarnia Newton, DNP, FNP-C, said she believes all nurses have a calling to advocate for their patients through justice, equity, diversity and inclusion.

These are the JEDI nurses Dr. Tarnia Newton is looking for…

As technology evolves and new health challenges arise, Allan Hamilton, MD, FACS, and the Arizona Simulation Technology and Education Center are developing new ways of educating students, health care professionals, first responders and others.

Creating the future of health care simulation education, training

Travis Wheeler, PhD, and his team at the University of Arizona Health Sciences are developing software to aid in identifying drugs for target proteins and for predicting possible side effects.

Computational drug discovery could open new doors

The Sonoran Center for Excellence in Disabilities, along with the Center for Transformative Interprofessional Healthcare, utilize a virtual Interprofessional Education Event on Disability, to ready Health Sciences students to care for patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This includes videos about a woman with Down syndrome and diabetes who is going through a change in her living situation.

Sonoran Center trains students to close disability care gaps

Organoids are miniature tissues or tumors grown in the laboratory that provide scientists with a more realistic model to design therapeutics for hard-to-treat cancers and rare diseases.

Miniature organs driving precision medicine, drug discovery

Fernando D. Martinez, MD, Regents Professor and director of the University of Arizona Health Sciences’ Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center.

Connecting with Dr. Fernando Martinez

researchers are studying how electronic stimulation of the brain

Stimulating the brain to treat pain and substance use disorder

The reception area at the new University of Arizona Clinical and Translational Sciences Research Center is large, modern and filled with natural light — all improvements over the center’s old space.

CATS Center opens modernized, larger facility

Anna Williams prepares to load a flow cell into the PANDA Core for Genome and Microbiome Research’s NovaSeq 6000 genome sequencer. The flow cell is what DNA samples are pumped into and what they bind to as they’re processed into sequenced reads.

Health Sciences genome sequencers a leap forward for research

The arid climate of the Southwestern U.S. provides researchers at the University of Arizona with a real-world laboratory to study the effects of climate change on human health both locally and across the globe.

A look at the cost of climate change on human health

Members of the Health Sciences Research Administration’s Walkie Talkie teams walk regularly during lunch. There are four Walkie Talkie teams with a total of 26 members.

Move AZ improves health and community in Health Sciences