by Admin | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19, NAU
The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute at Northern Arizona University and the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of Arizona have formed a union dedicated to...
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...
