by Admin | Apr 12, 2020 | ASU, COVID-19
Brenda Hogue is Professor, Biodesign Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines and Virotherapy and Associate Faculty,at the Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery. Just a week after the first U.S. case of the new coronavirus was confirmed in Washington state,...
by Admin | Apr 11, 2020 | COVID-19, Innovations, UArizona
A team of UArizona Health Sciences researchers is studying whether or not certain copper-based chemical compounds could potentially stop the virus that causes COVID-19 dead in its tracks. A $1.9 million grant will allow Michael Johnson to study copper toxicity in...
by Admin | Apr 11, 2020 | ASU, COVID-19
“ASU is in a unique position to scale up our testing efforts to support round-the-clock testing and analyze hundreds of samples daily,” said Joshua LaBaer, director of ASU’s Biodesign Institute, who also serves as the Piper Chair in Personalized Medicine and leader of...
by Admin | Apr 9, 2020 | Improving Health, NAU, Student Stories, Universities
Chris Keefe is blending his passions for biology and computer science to help tackle the sixth leading cause of death in the United States—Alzheimer’s disease. To do that, he is using microbiome bioinformatics and computer software development to investigate the...
by Admin | Apr 9, 2020 | Improving Health, NAU, Student Stories, Universities
Kaitlyn Parra aspires for a career in research. And what’s most important for her is seeing that infectious disease research can directly impact patients in a positive way. “All of this is life-changing,” Parra said. “I really wanted to go into medicine. And now that...
by Admin | Apr 7, 2020 | Improving Health, Innovations, NAU, Universities
Allen Clarke, a Computer Science and Mathematics double major, has been sharpening his software development abilities at NAU’s Pathogen and Microbiome Institute (PMI). He is leveraging his programming expertise to create tools that help PMI researchers complete their...
by Admin | Apr 7, 2020 | Innovations, NAU, Student Stories, Universities
Amid a national opioid crisis, chemistry major Noelle Waltenburg is finding ways to help people move on from their addiction. She and other students in assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry Naomi Lee’s lab are researching an opioid vaccine that could be...
by Admin | Mar 31, 2020 | ASU, Improving Health, NAU, Student Stories, UArizona, Universities
“I don’t know what to call it,” said Joseph Espinoza, “but I feel like I have to do something about it. I have to try to find some answers.” In 2018 Espinoza experienced an unexpected confluence of his personal life and his work as an undergraduate researcher. That...
by Admin | Mar 31, 2020 | Looking Beyond, NAU, Universities
As a child, whenever Jacob Hyden was away from the lights of his hometown of Phoenix, he would spend hours looking at the night sky. “I was always inquisitive about space and the stars,” he said. “I was always looking up.” So when he came to NAU, he naturally...
by Admin | Jan 9, 2020 | Improving Health, NAU, Universities
Tim Becker, an associate professor of practice in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northern Arizona University, is developing a polypropylene glycol-based biomaterial called PPODA-QT, which is similar to body tissue, to treat aneurysms in the brain and...
