With more than 50 registrants, the inaugural Sharing Opportunities & Achievements in Research forum provided an opportunity to share ideas, network, and recognize outstanding and up-and-coming investigators in the Department of Medicine.

Pulsed electric field therapy — provided by Interventional Pulmonology team including Drs. Billie Bixby, Madhav Chopra, Darius Filsoof and James Knepler — is thought to target tumors without surgery.

A University of Arizona Health Sciences study with Drs. Tara Carr and Fernando Martinez aims to understand how early-life exposure to environmental factors places some children at an increased risk for asthma.

Innovations from the U of A College of Medicine – Tucson, the Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center and the BIO5 Institute are targeting the deeper causes of asthma and COPD.

Among participants at the April 4-5 event at the ASU/Mayo Health Futures Center were the Division of Infectious Diseases’ and Valley Fever Center’s Drs. John Galgiani, Fariba Donovan and Neil Ampel, and internal medicine resident Dr. Johnny Trinh

Research presentations by Department of Medicine faculty were among mainstays of the annual event, with a special focus on CTSAs, cardiovascular health, and the impact Arizona’s unique climate and soils have on skin cancer and fungal respiratory disease.

The Arizona Board of Regents voted Thursday to confirm the appointments of Janko Nikolich, Jiang Wu and Dennis Zaritsky as Regents Professors.

Among six from the College of Medicine – Tucson, they include a dermatology resident who’ll start as an Internal Medicine intern this year, in addition to a graduating nephrology fellow, going back to complete his IM residency training. See results from MATCH Day 2025 on March 21.