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Health Sciences colleges merge art and humanities with science
The wealth of arts and humanities programs offered boost wellness and help create more empathetic health care providers. Yunjia Yang, PhD, couldn’t bear to watch her beloved grandmother slip into the dark solitude of Alzheimer’s disease. Her grandmother couldn’t recognize her anymore, so Yang — a trained dancer — tried to reach her in other ways.…
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First-of-Its-Kind Cancer Therapy Targets ‘Undruggable’ Protein Interaction
Phoenix scientists pioneer a new cancer therapy by disrupting a protein link that helps tumors survive and spread A groundbreaking cancer therapy being developed in Phoenix is rewriting the rules of drug discovery by targeting what scientists have long considered “undruggable”— a critical interaction between two proteins that drive tumor growth and spreading. In findings…
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HonorHealth Research Institute is the first of 50 sites worldwide to treat a patient in a new clinical study aimed at melanoma
New therapy uses modified immune-system T cells to target PRAME, a peptide commonly found in difficult-to-treat melanoma skin cancer tumors SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — April 29, 2025 — HonorHealth Research Institute recently treated the first patient in a 50-site international clinical trial that will test a new type of therapy aimed at difficult-to-treat melanoma, an aggressive type…
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Arizona Startups Awarded Over $50,000 At IDEA Funding 2025 Pitch Competition
April 4, 2025 (Tucson, Ariz,)— IdeaFunding, co-led by Startup Tucson and the University of Arizona Center for Innovation (UACI), has played a significant role in the entrepreneurial landscape for over twenty-seven years and is Southern Arizona’s largest and longest running pitch competition. The IdeaFunding finals took place on March 27 at the Rialto Theater where 25…
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A new university prototype for a thriving world
ASU’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory tackles some of the most important, complex problems of our time Editor’s note: This story was originally featured in a special edition of ASU Thrive magazine. The challenges for our world’s health and the future of humanity and other life-forms command urgency — and the university is accelerating its wide-reaching collaborative…
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Graduate students shine at annual 3-Minute Research Presentation finals
Brewing a cup of tea. Listening to a pop song. Doing 180 jumping jacks.What do these activities have in common? They each take roughly three minutes to complete. Typically, explaining the results of one’s in-depth research and their implications doesn’t fall into this category of short-term pursuits, but for most disciplines, honing the ability to…
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$5 million gift to provide scholarships for new ASU medical school students
Longtime donor Annette Beus: ‘Scholarships always have my heart’ A $5 million gift from longtime Arizona State University donor Annette Beus and her family will help provide scholarships for 72 students in the new School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering, part of ASU Health. The gift will be leveraged to solicit an additional $15 million…
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Exact Sciences Launches the Cologuard™ Plus Test, Transforming Colorectal Cancer Screening
The Cologuard Plus test demonstrated 95% sensitivity for colorectal cancer detection at 94% specificity, making it the most accurate noninvasive CRC screening test reported in studies to date Madison, Wis., March 31, 2025 — Exact Sciences Corp. (Nasdaq: EXAS), a leading provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, today announced the launch of Cologuard Plus™, the…
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Tyler Gallo, PharmD, Receives ABRC Grant on Heparin-induced Thrombocytopenia
Study seeks to detect people at risk for immune reactions to heparin products Tyler Gallo, PharmD, an assistant research professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, received a research grant from the Arizona Biomedical Research Centre (ABRC). The ABRC grant, which is worth $220,000 over the course of three years, will…
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New initiative aims to make nursing degrees more accessible
Danielle Sebbens, associate director of ASU’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program, gives tours of the interior of the mobile simulation unit during the ribbon-cutting event on the ASU West Valley campus on March 26. The unit will allow students on the West Valley and Polytechnic campuses to complete their required simulations without having to drive…
