The BIO5 Connection - January 27, 2023

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Following Nature's Rules

UArizona professor Dr. Robin Polt utilizes the concepts and practices of nature to create and design new drugs that will cross the blood-brain barrier to potentially treat degenerative neurological diseases.

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PRECISION MEDICINE

Tomorrow Is Here

The UArizona Center for Advanced Molecular and Immunological Therapies is supported with 150 million dollars in state funding to help create new and improved precision healthcare treatments.

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VIRUSES

Researchers Determined to Prevent Viruses From Winning

UArizona Health Science experts Dr. Felicia Goodrum and Dr. Kacey Ernst cross-collaborate using public health and immunobiological approaches to ensure pandemic states can become non-existent for future generations.

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TECHNOLOGY ENABLED HEALTH]

Advancing Solar Science

Associate professor of chemical and environmental engineering Dr. Erin Ratcliff leads one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s centers to advance energy conversion using soft organic polymer electronic materials.

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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

New Entrepreneurial Initiative Connects Engineering and Business Students

A new donor-funded engineering and business initiative known as E cubed is expected to reach 600+ students after being successfully co-taught by UArizona professor and BIO5 member Dr. Mark Van Dyke.

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DRUG DELIVERY

Graduate Student Spotlight: Kevin Hurtado

R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy graduate Kevin Hurtado works alongside BIO5 member Dr. Rick Schnellmann to promote and present pharmacological research regarding the treatment of acute kidney injury.

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January 27

Problems In Complex Disease Biology

9:00-10.50am

Keating Bioresearch Building, Rm. 103

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February 8

Discover BIO5 Open House

4:00 - 7:00pm

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February 15

Student Industry Networking Event

4:00 - 6:00pm

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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We respectfully acknowledge the University of Arizona is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples. Today, Arizona is home to 22 federally recognized tribes, with Tucson being home to the O’odham and the Yaqui. Committed to diversity and inclusion, the University strives to build sustainable relationships with sovereign Native Nations and Indigenous communities through education offerings, partnerships, and community service.

The BIO5 Institute at the University of Arizona connects and mobilizes top researchers in agriculture, engineering, biomedicine, pharmacy, basic science, and computational science to find creative solutions to humanity’s most pressing health and environmental challenges. Since 2001, this interdisciplinary approach has been an international model of how to conduct collaborative research, and has resulted in disease prevention strategies, promising new therapies, innovative diagnostics and devices, and improved food crops.