Research & Innovation
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Pitch Perfect
By James Marten – Software Helps Public Speakers Hone Their Craft For many, public speaking conjures intense anxieties. The jitters…
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Avatars Seek the Truth
By Romi Carrell Wittman – UA Professor Sees Future with Human-like Lie Detectors Jay Nunamaker, a Regents Professor and Soldwedel…
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Breakthroughs in Women’s Healthcare
By June C. Hussey – Led by Roche Tissue Diagnostics After 32 years of discovery and innovation, Roche Tissue Diagnostics,…
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Game-Changer
By Monica Surfaro Spigelman – Blood Test IDs Infectious Bacteria in Hours, not Days We know bacteria. Our lives are…
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Mushroom Mania
By Lee Allen – Southern Arizona’s Fast-Growing Specialty Crop If some dedicated mycophiles have their way, Tucson will not only…
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Expert in Alzheimer’s Focuses on Women
By Eric Swedlund – Funded by $10.3 Million Grant A leading expert on Alzheimer’s disease in women, Roberta Diaz…
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Jennifer Barton
By Eric Swedlund – Taking on Ovarian Cancer with Teamwork As a renowned biomedical engineer and research administrator, Jennifer…
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Roche Changing Cancer Diagnostics
By Romi Carrell Wittman – Oro Valley’s Top Employer, A Worldwide Leader When the diagnosis is cancer, treatment options typically…
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Innovation Industry Ingredients
By Jay Gonzales – Report Paves Way for Bioscience, Technology Growth A detailed and wide-ranging strategy is underway in…
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Ventana Medical Systems Improves Cancer Diagnostics
By Dan Sorenson – Demand Exceeds Expectations Ventana Medical Systems, Inc., has developed another milestone product to aid in the…
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Sunquest & Hawkins Set Sights on Growth
By Jay Gonzales – Quest to Invest Sunquest & Hawkins Set Sights on Growth When the opportunity arrived for Matt…
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Global Impact of UA Optics – Producing Talent, Patents and Products
By Eric Swedlund – The advances in optical sciences over the last half-century are staggering. Yet through all the changes,…
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MAP Dashboard – Data-Driven Research to Fuel Positive Change
By David Pittman – It’s amazing what collaboration between diverse interests can accomplish. Collaboration between the Southern Arizona Leadership Council,…
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Diagnostics Summit Attracts Global Audience – UA/Miraval Institute Event Provides Pathway to Better Health
By Romi Carrell Wittman – Many of the top medical minds in the country gathered on an early summer evening…
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Tucson Emerges as Global Leader in Fight Against Cancer
By David B. Pittman – Tucson is recognized as a global leader at the forefront of medical research, diagnostics and…
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Sweitzer Brings Researchers Together – Sarver Heart Center Poised to be a Real Force
By Eric Swedlund – Dr. Nancy K. Sweitzer is the type of physician-scientist who thrives in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment…
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Women of the Heart – Aligning Research from Bench to Bedside
By Eric Swedlund – With a new director at the helm, the University of Arizona’s Sarver Heart Center is moving…
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Tech Parks Arizona Focused on the Future of Innovation
By Eric Swedlund – Tech Parks Arizona is leading the University of Arizona’s tech parks into a new era –…
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Brightest Minds Focus on Cures for Kids
By Gabrielle Fimbres – There could be no more noble cause – finding cures for childhood illnesses and easing the…
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Finding Markets for New Ideas
By Eric Swedlund A new collaboration aims to ramp up entrepreneurial activity in Tucson and rapidly push startup technology companies…
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UA’s Brainiac Barnes Unlocking Secrets of Normal Aging Brain
By Gabrielle Fimbres – Chances are good your brain will not be ravaged by dementia or Alzheimer’s disease in old…
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App Savvy Long Realty Goes Mobile
By Pamela Doherty These days, there’s an “app for that” everywhere. Applications – or software that runs on mobile devices…
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C-Path Emerging as Major Player
By Dan Sorenson Tucson’s Critical Path Institute, better known as C-Path, is emerging as a major player in a movement…
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Tucson’s First World-Class Data Center
By Eric Swedlund Tucson’s first world-class data center launched operations earlier this year in a $15 million, 38,000-square-foot facility that…
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Imagine a Vaccine to Prevent Cancer’s Return
By Eric Swedlund Imagine a vaccine created from the cancer cells of a child that could prevent the disease from…
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Rx for Economy: Medical Diagnostics
By Dan Sorenson Southern Arizona has the assets and the attitude to “own” an emerging biosciences niche – medical diagnostics.…
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One Step Closer to Conquering NP-C
By Gabrielle Fimbres After nearly two decades of fundraising, research and devastating heartache, the Parseghian family is nearing the goal…
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Innovator of theYear
By Sheryl Kornman The ingenuity, intellect, vision, tenacity and entrepreneurship of University of Arizona Professor Hsinchun Chen produced crime fighting…
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Commercializing UA Research
By Eric Swedlund The University of Arizona is transforming the way new discoveries and inventions are commercialized – and leading…
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Revenues Soar – Wheelchair Lifts, Tie-Down Shelving, Containers
By Teya Vitu AGM Container Controls has tripled its annual revenue from $5 million to $17 million since Howard Stewart…
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Solving the Mysteries of Suddden Cardiac Death
By Eric Swedlund Dr. Jil Tardiff had her career in biomedical research steered toward endocrinology until a patient suffered a…
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Out of Curiosity UA Explores Mars – Again
By Eric Swedlund When Curiosity perfectly executed the astonishingly difficult series of maneuvers to land on Mars, University of Arizona…
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Schroeder’s Goal: Stopping the Spread of Breast Cancer
By Eric Swedlund – Joyce Schroeder anticipates the day when breast cancer treatments will use a drug that attacks the…
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Engineering Next-Generation Heat Shields for Spaceships
By Teya Vitu – Travel does not get more extreme than flying at Mach 5 or faster in an aircraft…
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Research Corporation High risk + high reward = 40 Nobel Prizes
By Teya Vitu – Nobel Prizes typically get doled out some 30 years after scientists make their revolutionary discoveries. No…
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Brain Scientist Leads UA’s Portfolio of Cutting-Edge Research
By Eric Swedlund – Leslie Tolbert remembers the electrifying feeling of the moment she decided what her life’s work was…
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Creating Next-Generation Diagnostics at Ventana Medical Systems
By Romi Carrell Wittman – Real-life medicine thankfully lacks the theatrical drama of a television show like House – but…
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Gas Up with Algae Kim Ogden’s Biofuel Research
By Teya Vitu – Algae is nothing more than pond scum to most of us. Kim Ogden dedicates her career…
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