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Regents Professor Juanita Merchant, MD, PhD, devotes her career to “hedgehog,” a cell signaling pathway that may hold keys for improving neuroendocrine cancer treatment and help identify new drug targets.

With Division of Endocrinology presenters Ronadip Banerjee, MD, PhD, division chief, and Jennifer Stern, PhD, the key focus was on glucagon and GLP-1 receptor agonists’ role in weight-loss and healthspan improvement as we age.

With a focus on pandemics, lungs and sleep research, this NIH-funded program is recruiting biomedical sciences research candidates for the 12th cohort of an scientific training fellowship led by Sairam Parthasarathy, MD, Francisco Moreno, MD, and Janko Nikolich, MD, PhD. Starting in July, it’s open to applicants from across the U of A Health Sciences. Learn more and apply.

With multiple Department of Medicine faculty acting as judges and evaluators, poster and oral vignette presenters outdid themselves at this annual event to cap off research projects often presented at symposiums and conferences around the nation.

With a high of six for the Division of Inpatient Medicine and five each for the Hematology & Oncology and Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine divisions, this is the most promotions in decades for the department. Congrats, one and all!

Several College of Medicine – Tucson and Department of Medicine faculty participated as panelists and moderators at this event, which celebrated the serendipitous missions in efforts to improve medical therapies and healthcare throughout Southern Arizona.

A five-year, nearly $14 million award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, or PCORI, will support a University of Arizona-led clinical trial headed by Sairam Parthsarathy, MD, comparing three common treatments for obstructive sleep apnea.

With a fresh venue and smiles for an excellent year of academic merit, faculty, students, residents and a fellow or two as well as education staff gathered for the annual honors celebration at The Eddy Hotel.

Marvin Slepian, MD, JD, Regents Professor, cardiologist and U of A Center for Accelerated Biomedical Innovation director, will deliver the Eva M. Holtby Endowed Keynote Presentation, May 16, exploring a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape where artificial intelligence is enhancing how clinicians diagnose, treat and manage disease.

The College of Medicine – Tucson and the College of Medicine – Phoenix, which Blue Ridge combines for ranking purposes, increased their combined funding to $108.2 million, boosting their national rank two spots to No. 55.