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 | 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 | 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...
by Admin | Dec 17, 2019 | Improving Health, Student Stories, UArizona, Universities
Jen Koevary, Ph.D. is Chief Operating and Financial Officer at Avery Therapeutics. Dr. Koevary has a background in business development and medical device R&D. She was previously responsible for commercialization of university technology at the University of...
by Admin | Dec 17, 2019 | Improving Health, Innovations, UArizona, Universities
Clara Curiel-Lewandrowski, MD is a professor and vice chair of dermatology for the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson. She holds joint roles as the director of the Multidisciplinary Cutaneous Oncology Program and the clinical director for the...
by Admin | Dec 17, 2019 | ASU, Improving Health, Innovations, Universities
For more than a decade, scientist Stephen Albert Johnston and his team at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have pooled their energies into an often scoffed-at, high-risk, high-reward goal in medicine: to develop a universal vaccine to prevent cancer. In...
