HSD News

Travis Sawyer, PhD is one among twenty-five scholars selected from across the country for the second annual cohort. In 2021 NCI launched the program to, "facilitate the advancement of scientists from diverse backgrounds to become independent investigators."

Researchers at UArizona Health Sciences and the Eller College of Management are using data mining to improve medical communication and diagnoses.

It was the beginning of fall semester 2020, and Sydney Phan was logging into a new course at the University of Arizona Health Sciences. The goal of the course was to find ways of using artificial intelligence to improve patient-provider interactions. Once students received that directive, the rest was up to them.

Following startup efforts by Health Sciences Design (HSD) and other campus units, Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) recently established its own centralized program administration. Martha Bhattacharya, PhD, assistant professor of neuroscience at the University of Arizona, and Leah Callovini, MS, a doctoral student at the UArizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, will lead VIP as its faculty director and undergraduate research coordinator.

Bhattacharya and Callovini will help lead the program that focuses on student research, creative inquiry and service learning.

As a child growing up in Rio de Janeiro, Gustavo de Oliveira Almeida, PhD, never had a dream job. A curious problem-solver with a knack for acquiring new technical skills, he went on to work as a logistics technician for a steel company, a research assistant for a multilateral international development bank and a government consultant.

The BIO5 Institute supports innovative projects and new ideas to further interdisciplinary early-stage research by funding seed, pilot, and equipment grants.

A shy hammerhead shark dances, warily, around two delighted divers. 

When it’s time to rest or hide, the divers slip into a remarkable underwater tent that offers them a dry space to decompress, talk, even eat — and extend their workday under the sea off Andros Island, east of Miami.

As gaps between health care needs and current solutions become more apparent, innovative education programs are preparing students for the future.