News
June 20, 2017
First-year medical student Ashley Nelson has spent the last year working at the National Institute of Aging in Baltimore, MD, as a Post-baccalaureate fellow. Since high school, Nelson has had a deep passion for neuroscience, which eventually led her to her goal of becoming a physician scientist and being a part of the medical school's inaugural MD/PhD class.
March 21, 2017
Ikeotunye "Ike" Royal Chinyere conducts research under the mentorship of Elizabeth Juneman and Steven Goldman, who was Juneman's mentor.
January 5, 2017
Cronkite News talked to Alexander Sandweiss from the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Arizona.
May 2, 2016
Understanding how opioids activate the reward pathway leading to addiction is crucial to developing a non-addictive pain reliever, says Sandweiss, who also is arranger/director for the singing group DocApella.
February 18, 2015
Former Arizona swimmer Austen Thompson has had incredible academic success since he graduated from the University of Arizona in Molecular and Cellular Biology. Thompson was recently accepted into a prestigious MD–PhD program offered at Arizona, where he will be able to get both doctorates as a dual degree over the next seven to eight years. He is one of only five accepted out of 200 plus applicants.