Disease ecologist Bridget Barker investigates Valley Fever, a potentially deadly disease spreading across the Southwest
To her colleagues, she’s become known as “the Queen of Cocci” because she’s cultivated her specialty studying the pathogens Coccidioides immitis and C. posadasii (cocci for short), which cause the disease Coccidioidomycosis, better known as Valley Fever. Associate Professor Bridget… Read more
Scientists to apply findings from cancer research to reversing tissue damage caused by Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF)
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is a serious, irreversible disease that causes scar tissue to build up in the lung, making it hard to breathe and slowing oxygen flow into the bloodstream. The activation of various cytokines (proteins that control the growth and activity of other immune system… Read more
The United States has experienced an unparalleled epidemic of incarceration in the past 40 years.
That’s the crux of the research that Ricky Camplain, an assistant professor in Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) and the Department of Health Sciences, has done for years. Her research with collaborators has shown… Read more
The results of a study led by Northern Arizona University and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, suggest the immune systems of people infected with COVID-19 may rely on antibodies created during infections from earlier coronaviruses to help fight the disease.
COVID-19 isn’t humanity’s first encounter with a coronavirus, so named because… Read more
Despite concerted national efforts to create healthier, more equitable communities, health disparities and health inequities still “loom large” in the United States, particularly for people of color and rural communities.
According to the recently released 2020 Regional Health Equity Survey Report (RHES), a way to address health equity issues may lie in cross-sectoral collaboration between Arizona’s top community leaders — those whose individual work, when brought together, directly… Read more
One of the most promising areas of human cancer research is the study of signal transduction, or cell signaling. Communication between and within cells in the body is accomplished through signal transduction, as stimuli generated in one part of an organism travels through the circulatory system and initiates a response in specific target cells. As… Read more