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UArizona Health Sciences Researchers Awarded $7.3M to Study Long COVID

The University of Arizona Health Sciences is one of five sites that will be tracking the burden, distribution and impact of post COVID-19 conditions.

Ushering in a New Era of Biobanking

FDA Authorizes Use of UArizona COVID-19 Antibody Test; Testing Expanded to All Arizonans Age 18 and Older

Proud to be sponsoring the First Women in Data Science Event in Tucson

Internships Lead to Scientific Publication for High School Students

Congratulations to Terry Smith for receiving a Wildcat Family Spirit Award

Precision Medicine and Healthcare Transformation: A Tale of Two Populations

Guest lecture by Philip R.O. Payne, PhD, FACMI | May 23rd | 12 - 1 pm | BIO5 103

Jianrong "John" Li Receives Award for Commitment to Quality Improvement

UA’s Dr. Yves Lussier Honored with Ambassador Award from The University of Sherbrooke

UA's Dr. Yves Lussier Invited to Give Keynote Address at 'Precision Medicine Day,' April 13 in Houston

CB2 researcher participates in Nature paper - largest collection of human exome sequence data

Members of the Exome Aggregation Consortium (ExAC) report scientific findings from data on the exome sequences (protein-coding portions of the genome) from 60,706 people from diverse ethnic backgrounds.

UAHS & Banner Receive $4 million from NIH for Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program

The UA Health Sciences and Banner Heath have received a major NIH grant to participate in President Barack Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program, which will greatly enhance precision health research and create new health-care jobs in Arizona.

Making precision medicine a reality: Genomics researchers unveil road map to disease origin

Researchers are one step closer to understanding the genetic and biological basis of diseases like cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and rheumatoid arthritis – and identifying new drug targets and therapies – thanks to work by three computational biology research teams from the University of Arizona Health Sciences, University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University.

Dr. Lussier and Grant Schissler speak of Big Data on KGUN9 Local News

Dr. Yves Lussier discusses the predictive ability of biomedical Big Data to improve patient outcomes. Grant Schissler, grad student in Dr. Lussier's lab, demonstrates the implementation of data reduction techniques to identify key genomic characteristics to predict survival in breast cancer patients.

White House Announcement: UA Health Sciences Commits Biomedical Informatics and Genome Medicine Teams to National Precision Medicine Initiative

The University of Arizona Health Sciences will commit significant resources to precision medicine – translating large-scale clinical and genomic data to accelerate disease prevention, early detection and treatment – through the UA Center for Biomedical Informatics and Biostatistics and the UA Center for Applied Genetics and Genomic Medicine.

White House Precision Medicine Initiative Summit

Renowned Bioinformatician Joins Arizona Health Sciences Center at the University of Arizona