University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ·Public·Medical school
36 labs on PI Pages. It spends $1.0B a year on research and awards 487 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 61,966: 49,114 undergraduates, 12,852 graduate
- Postdocs
- 431
- Faculty
- 2,246 full-time
- Campus
- Residential
Labs here
Torsten Falk
Pharmacology
Test whether the glycopeptide PNA5 improves memory and thinking deficits in male mice injected with alpha-synuclein preformed fibrils, compared with scrambled-glycopeptide and vehicle controls, using behavioral tests.
Jingjing Liang
Neuroscience
Test how Aggregatin, a protein encoded by the Alzheimer's-linked gene FAM222A, controls TDP-43 clumping and toxicity in neurons, using Aggregatin knockout models.
Yi Tan
Pharmacology
Optimize doses of the stabilized FGF16 variant rhFGF16delta33 that protect against diabetic cardiomyopathy in two type 2 diabetic mouse models, high-fat diet/streptozotocin mice and db/db mice.
Henk L. Granzier
Physiology
Determine whether the dominant nebulin deletion NEBΔ14–89 accumulates because of more transcript or more efficient translation, quantifying RNA and protein in patient biopsies and using ribosome profiling (Ribo-seq) to measure translational output, with STORM super-resolution imaging and contractile assays for structural and functional effects.
Frederic Zenhausern
Biomedical Engineering
Develop paper-compatible biodosimetry assays that distinguish radiation doses below 2 gray from 2 gray and above, using sandwich immunoassays for radiation-responsive leukocyte proteins and an amplification-free chemistry that detects DNA:RNA hybrids for transcripts.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.