Hina Arif, MD, FSAR, assistant dean for faculty affairs, received the 2025 Edith Sayre Auslander Established Visionary Award.

The College of Medicine – Tucson OK’d reinstatement of the Department of Medicine’s Division of Translational Medicine, with Jennifer Carew, PhD, as chief. Her goals include more cross-campus research partnerships for better patient care solutions.

A spate of bad press involving the insects resulted in scary headlines, but years of research by Stephen A. Klotz, MD, past Infectious Diseases division chief at the College of Medicine – Tucson, show they pose little risk.

New features such as an igloo-themed holiday photo booth and a raffle drawing made the Dec. 3 event even more fun and spectacular.

Nearly $215,000 in seed money will promote research in brain cancer, calorie restriction and healthy aging, vision problems in Parkinson’s patients, strength training for healthy blood pressure during pregnancy and immune defenses against a brain parasite.

Celebrating the man, the scientist, the teacher, the father.

We are deeply saddened to share that our friend and colleague, Professor Emeritus Arthur “Art” Gmitro, PhD, passed away on November 22 in Tucson.

Ali Kellerman, headed to College of Agriculture and Life Sciences division, and Julio Valencia and Angelica Bonfiglio, to the College of Medicine – Tucson’s new Department of Dermatology, got certificates. Bersabe Lopez left for Dermatology, too.

The University of Arizona Cancer Center’s annual showcase of research lived well up to its promise this year, with multiple participants from six divisions of the Department of Medicine — and new U of A chief AI and data science officer David Ebert, PhD.