UArizona Cancer Center named NCI Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center
The UArizona Cancer Center is one of 53 Comprehensive Cancer Centers designated by the NCI and the only one in Arizona. The designation is the highest awarded by the NCI, assuring that the center meets the highest standards for providing cancer care to patients and conducting cancer research. Each NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center focuses its […]
Advancing research on women’s brains, menopause and increased Alzheimer’s risk
The grant will allow Brinton to continue research to reveal the transformations in the brain that occur during female midlife aging that lead to greater risk of Alzheimer’s disease. “Our research has shown that women are at greater risk for Alzheimer’s disease not because they live longer than men, but because the disease can start […]
Center for Sleep, Circadian and Neuroscience Research opens new facility
Built using a $5 million construction grant from the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director, the UArizona Health Sciences Center for Sleep, Circadian and Neuroscience Research gives investigators access to state-of-the-art technology to conduct innovative sleep and circadian rhythm research. The new facility, located in the basement of the Arizona Health Sciences Center […]
$8.5M gift establishes Ginny L. Clements Breast Cancer Research Institute
“I was 15 years old when I had breast cancer, in 1956,” Clements said. “Who thinks about breast cancer when you are a teenager? I sure didn’t. Losing my breast at such a very young age is probably the most traumatic experience that I have endured. I know now that there was a reason for […]
