by Admin | Dec 17, 2019 | Innovations, Learning Labs, Looking Beyond, Student Stories, UArizona, Universities
L’SPACE, a program at Arizona State University is starting undergraduate students on a career path that could lead them to join NASA spaceflight mission teams. Funded at $5.04 million for three years by NASA, the program — dubbed L’SPACE (for Lucy Student...
by Admin | Dec 17, 2019 | ASU, Innovations, Keeping Us Safe, Universities
The ASU team, led by Joshua LaBaer, executive director of the Biodesign Institute and director of the Center for Personalized Diagnostics, and co-principal investigator Vel Murugan, aims to develop a technology that will use a single drop of blood to quickly read a...
by Admin | Dec 17, 2019 | A Better World, ASU, Innovations, Universities
“The concept of wastes or waste products is obsolete – the focus and the future are used resource recovery.” Dr. Bruce Rittmann Dr. Bruce Rittmann, Ph.D., is the director of the Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State...
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...
by Admin | Dec 16, 2019 | Improving Health, Innovations, NAU, Universities
Professor Jani Ingram is lead researcher for the Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention, investigating the environmental exposure of uranium within Navajo communities and how it poses a significant cancer risk. Dr. Jani Ingram is an Associate Professor of...
