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Scientists on a quest to prevent asthma by boosting immune system

A family history of respiratory illnesses led environmental researcher Paloma Beamer, PhD, to enroll her newborn son in a clinical trial to prevent asthma.

Portrait of Mingyu Liang, MB, PhD, standing outside in front of trees.

Mingyu Liang works to transform physiology at U of A

Onicio Leal Neto, PhD, MPH, stands at a desk next to a table full of people with laptops open in front of them.

Public Health launches first AI summer program

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New bachelor’s degree positions students for success in growing medical device industry

Uniquely U of A Health Sciences

Ken Batai, PhD, a Cancer Prevention and Control Program research member at the UArizona Cancer Center, examined the increased risks of kidney cancer, specifically among Arizona’s Hispanic and Native American populations.

Increased Risk of Mortality Found for Arizona’s Hispanic, Native American Kidney Cancer Patients

Ken Batai, PhD, a Cancer Prevention and Control Program research member at the UArizona Cancer Center, examined the increased risks of kidney cancer, specifically among Arizona’s Hispanic and Native American populations.

Increased Risk of Mortality Found for Arizona’s Hispanic, Native American Kidney Cancer Patients

The UArizona Health Sciences Asthma & Airway Disease Research Center has spent decades researching the origins of adult respiratory diseases, including asthma and COPD, which often begin in the wheezing and lower respiratory infections of youth.

Attacking Asthma: 50 Years of Life-changing Discovery

The UArizona Health Sciences Asthma & Airway Disease Research Center has spent decades researching the origins of adult respiratory diseases, including asthma and COPD, which often begin in the wheezing and lower respiratory infections of youth.

Attacking Asthma: 50 Years of Life-changing Discovery

A unique National Institutes of Health-funded training program helps prepare UArizona Health Sciences students for careers that have a significant impact on understanding the biology of infection and inflammation as drivers of aging.

Students Tackle Aging Issues in Innovative Training Program

By expanding efforts to include more Spanish-speaking participants in the study, researchers will be able to better investigate whether vaccine effectiveness among essential workers and college students is modified by socio-demographic characteristics, occupation or health status.

AZ HEROES COVID-19 Immunity Study Expanding Efforts to Enroll Spanish-speaking Participants

Dakota Reinartz, a doctoral student in the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson, is using the Integrated Cancer Scholars program as a springboard to a career in cancer research.

Taking Aim at Inflammation’s Role in Head and Neck Cancer

May Khanna, PhD

Dr. May Khanna Elected Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors

The hygiene hypothesis, the idea that children exposed to more germs early on in life develop greater immunity and are less likely to get asthma and other diseases, will be explored in a UArizona-led cross-border study.

U.S.-Mexico Asthma Study Examines Hygiene Hypothesis Amid Pandemic

The hygiene hypothesis, the idea that children exposed to more germs early on in life develop greater immunity and are less likely to get asthma and other diseases, will be explored in a UArizona-led cross-border study.

U.S.-Mexico Asthma Study Examines Hygiene Hypothesis Amid Pandemic

Meredith Hay, PhD

Dr. Meredith Hay Elected Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors

Dr. Amelia Gallitano is hard at work developing a diagnostic test for schizophrenia that can be administered by a non-specialist.

Streamlining Schizophrenia Diagnosis with a Simple Test