News & Events

Genetics GIDP Faculty Member and student mentor Dr. Michael Hammer was featured in a CBS News Story on December 22, 2011, which can be found here.

Genetics GIDP faculty and Executive Committee member, Dr. Melanie Culver, has secured a very large  grant from the US Fish and Wildlife Services to study Jaguar presence in the Southwest. Very cool stuff!
To read more about this go to:  http://uanews.org/node/43504
Congratulations Melanie!!

Congratulations to Katherine Olsen Dempsey, MD/PhD student, on receiving a Herbert E. Carter Travel Award to attend the American Association for Cancer Research 102nd Annual Meeting 2011, Orlando, FL, April 2-6, 2011!

A $600,000 U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant will allow UA scientists to investigate and collect information on children born with spina bifida. Drs. Sydney Rice and Christopher Cunniff are leading the study. Read more   

Matthew Sullivan receives $1.6M grant to study Marine Viruses. Read more

"Promising cancer drug created at UA" - Joyce Schroeder's new nontoxic therapy featured on front page of Arizona Daily Star