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Dr. Ghassan (Gus) Mouneimne, Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, is working with researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centers to improve diagnostic tools and treatment for breast cancer. Click to read more.
Dr. Julie Ledford has been awarded $600,000 per year for the next four years - a successful renewal of her NIH/NHLBI R01 grant: "Defining mechanisms of CC16 on epithelial-driven host responses to pathogens." Congratulations to Dr. Ledford and her Co-Investigators Dr. Stefano Guerra, Dr. Joseph Vagner, and Dr. Darren Cusanovich.
The Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine is thrilled to announce the appointment of Dr. Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD, MBA, as our new department head! Click to read more.
Curtis Thorne, PhD, brings a deeply personal perspective to his research, having battled cancer himself while his two brothers also faced their own fights with the disease. Click to read more.
Congratulations to Anna Golebiewski for being awarded an American Heart Association fellowship. Anna is a Molecular Medicine PhD student training under Dr. Casey Romanoski, Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine.
Henk Granzier, PhD, has been selected as the honoree of the 2024 College of Medicine- Tucson Founders Day Lecture. Founders Day was established to honor faculty for their scientific accomplishments and commemorate the founding of COM-T. Click for more.
College of Medicine, Tucson, Associate Professor Paul Gignac is the lead on an extensive, 75-author manuscript detailing an international effort to bring together the science of computed tomography with policies and practices that ensure publicly funded data collection can be made widely available and understandable by diverse communities. Click to read more.
CMM Associate Professor Dr. Paul Gignac and colleagues integrate histological and diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced computed tomography (diceCT) to bring new insights into the anatomical and physiological organization of avian visual systems. Click to read more.
Associate Professor Paul Gignac in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and colleagues have been awarded a $2 Million NSF Cyberinfrastructure grant to develop a cloud-based, open-source platform for 3D digital anatomy research and education. The project marks a significant step towards enhancing collaborative scientific research and educational practices in the digital age. Click to read more.
The lab of Dr. Curtis Thorne focuses on finding a cure for colorectal cancer. Dr. Thorne's lab was featured in a UArizona Cancer Center article and video. Click to read more.
PhD student Tania Larrinaga, under the mentorship of Drs. Carol Gregorio and Chris Pappas, was first author on a paper which explains the role of Lmod2, a critical actin filament length regulator, in muscle contraction. These findings have important implications for human health, suggesting that muscle function should be monitored in people with Lmod2 mutations. Click to read more.
Research in the lab of Dr. Casey Romanoski seeks to better understand heart disease at the cellular and molecular level. Click to read more.
Dr. Ritu Pandey and colleagues are leveraging molecular profiling data to better understand certain cancers and uncover new treatments. Click to read more.