Taking Aim At A Deadly Lung Disease
A $4.4 million grant from the Department of Defense will help BIO5 Institute's Dr. Louise Hecker, UA Associate Professor of Medicine, and her team, including fellow BIO5 member and medicinal chemist Dr. Vijay Gokhale, test two drug candidates for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis – a deadly disease with no cure.
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Summer Interns Work With Drone Datasets, RNA Analyses
The KEYS Summer Research Internship Program lets high school students work alongside university faculty in top research labs. “Our interns learned to use tools that data scientists use every day...Their contributions will be used by many of the researchers that take advantage of our open access platform,” said Nirav Merchant, BIO5 member, CyVerse Co-Principal Investigator and Director of Data7.
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UA College of Pharmacy Professors Introduce New Means of Preventing & Repairing Skin/Sun Damage
BIO5 member Dr. Donna Zhang, UA Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Dr. Georg Wondrak, UA Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, have developed a means of protecting skin and repairing damage from UV radiation through the activation of NRF2, a transcription factor that regulates photoprotective responses in the skin potentially preventing premature aging and carcinogenesis.
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Cervical Cancer May Be Driven By Imbalance In Vaginal Bacteria, UA Research Finds
A team led by the UA Cancer Center’s Dr. Melissa M. Herbst-Kralovetz, BIO5 member and Associate Professor at the UA College of Medicine – Phoenix, studied 100 premenopausal women to find links between vaginal bacteria and cervical cancer. They found that there is a distinct difference between the vaginal microbiome in those who develop cervical cancer and those who do not.
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Two Unregulated Compounds Found In Marana Water Systems
Unregulated compounds were found in two of Marana's water systems. UA Associate Professor of Environmental Health Services and BIO5 member, Dr. Paloma Beamer said these compounds are man-made, but more research needs to be done to understand the compounds' effects.
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NOV. 15, 2018
Ecosystems Genomics Seminar Series
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NOV. 20, 2018
Ecosystems Genomics Seminar Series
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