Its Community Reinvestment Program invites nonprofits addressing root causes of poor health across Arizona. Since its 2020 inception, the program invested in over 200 programs, proving how deeply Banner’s nonprofit mission is based in places it serves.

Banner – University Medicine pathology assistant Kayla Bissonette went from employee to patient at the University of Arizona Cancer Center after a breast cancer diagnosis at age 32. Sima Ehsani, MD, a Division of Hematology & Oncology associate professor, led the clinical team that saw her through it.

New research shows that X and Y chromosomes drive risk of diseases, including cancer, independent of hormones. Understanding these mechanisms could drive sex-aware medicine.

The Center on Aging director and General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine division chief takes over from Joe Alpert, MD, Division of Cardiology professor, Sarver Heart Center member and past Department of Medicine chair, as head of the “Green Journal” in January 2027.

Researchers used whole genome sequencing to show how Y chromosome erosion alters gene behavior, opening possibilities for personalized male cancer treatment plans.

After Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia is the second-most common type of dementia. Following more than a decade of development in the lab, researchers are preparing to evaluate a novel peptide in humans.

BIO5’s Vignesh Subbian, PhD, will receive the AZBIO Educator of the Year Award, while firms linked to Cardiology’s Marvin Slepian, MD, and Pulmonary’s Billie Bixby, MD, will get Fast Lane Awards. And Jennifer Carew, PhD, will speak at an AZBIO Week event.

Dr. Meredith Hay has harnessed a career’s worth of expertise in cardiovascular and brain physiology to develop a tiny peptide that she hopes will have an outsize impact on neurological health.

A Cystic Fibrosis Foundation hike leader, Pathology’s Deb Fuchs, MD, said they’ll take a transverse route along the South Rim from the South Kaibab Trail, across the Tonto Plateau and returning on the Bright Angel Trailhead — all on Oct. 3.

Professor and Chair of Neurosurgery Julie Pilitsis, MD, PhD, MBA, leads a team hard at work on a non-invasive low-intensity focused ultrasound platform to treat chronic neuropathic pain without surgery or implanted hardware.