Tag: UA Health Sciences
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A teachable moment: An NIH award helps U of A graduate students seek answers to Alzheimer’s disease
An NIH National Institute on Aging T32 training grant provides students with opportunities to develop clinical and translational research skills, with a goal of turning discoveries into treatments Graduate student Sydney Ragsdale is working in the U of A Center for Innovation in Brain Science to develop new therapies for Alzheimer’s disease. Photo by Kris…
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Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Pediatrics Conference
Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Pediatrics: Advancing Mental Health for Women & Children is a one-day interdisciplinary conference that will empower primary and behavioral healthcare providers to confidently care for their perinatal, child, and adolescent patients living with psychiatric disorders. This conference is being held due to the alarming shortage of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other…
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Pioneering Early Detection for Ovarian Cancer
Phoenix, AZ (October 30, 2025) – A research team at the University of Arizona, led by Jennier Barton, PhD, who is currently serving as interim vice provost for health programs at UA Health Sciences, is redefining early detection in women’s health. The creation of the falloposcope could allow physicians to detect ovarian cancer at its…
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Connect2STEM helps students explore health care fields
College of Medicine – Phoenix’s community education program allows for hands-on learning. Students from Phoenix’s Estrella Middle School learned what it’s like to be in health care through the Connect2STEM program, courtesy of U of A College of Medicine – Phoenix medical students like Noah Shulkin, at right. Photo by Noelle Haro-Gomez, U of A…
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Falloposcope cancer screening tool testing advances to next steps
Jennifer Barton, PhD, is spearheading an effort to diagnose ovarian cancer earlier and give high-risk patients a new option. https://healthsciences.arizona.edu/media/oembed?url=https%3A//youtu.be/5_dEtlgAb98&max_width=0&max_height=0&hash=QmrIliikc2p3p0oDesMEIH1Sepc5O_BMbc9P6Vx9erQ Jennifer Barton, PhD, has spent decades working to improve the timeline for detecting ovarian cancer. She and her collaborators are now conducting two pilot trials using optimized versions of her patented falloposcope – the first endoscope…
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Leveraging research, industry expertise to speed biomedical breakthroughs
The new Center for Health and Technology pools assets throughout Arizona for widespread wins in device development. Collaborators in the University of Arizona Center for Health and Technology will produce next-generation devices that incorporate practical insights. Photo by Yuichiro Chino via Getty Images Research into chip-based wearable and implantable devices is showing great potential to…
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Can AI and a smartphone improve mental health treatment?
A graduate student is creating AI models to analyze smartphone data and detect behavioral changes that could lead to timely intervention and treatment. (From left) Hannah Vu, a graduate student in the Zuckerman College of Public Health, and her faculty mentor, Eung-Joo Lee, PhD, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering’s Department of Electrical…
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Public Health launches first AI summer program
The collaborative effort offered hands-on, high-tech training for students and educators across the university. Onicio Leal Neto, PhD, MPH (standing), said he hopes the recent Public Health & AI Summer School will be the first of many intensive workshops centered on machine learning. Photo by Kris Hanning, U of A Health Sciences Office of Communications…
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Smart sensors and smarter health: How AI and wearables are reimagining preventive health care
The combination of artificial intelligence and wearable devices provides unlimited new opportunities to improve human health through research. Photo by Noelle Haro-Gomez, U of A Health Sciences Office of Communications When it comes to automobiles, no matter how well they are maintained, at some point the check engine light is going to come on. Inevitably,…
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Developing the personalized future of cancer treatment
A CAMI scientist is leading efforts to create a new kind of cancer immunotherapy – neoantigen-specific cancer vaccines – to target patient-specific tumors and destroy cancer cells. Tanvir Ahmed, PhD, has dedicated his career to advancing vaccine development and immunotherapy. Now, as a principal scientist at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center for Advanced Molecular and…
