Research projects
Research: Working toward solutions
As a public research institution, Northern Arizona University has built a reputation for experiential learning, scientific discovery, and invention of new technologies. With world-class faculty and cutting-edge research centers and institutes, the university research enterprise represents a broad range of people and organizations involved in impactful academic research. To learn more, please find details through our Office of the Vice President for Research.
SHERC Research Projects will explore environmental factors and conditions that lead to increased risk disease transmission, and biological variables that may affect disease mortality in the underserved. The Research Projects, along with the Pilot Project Program, will provide important information on which to base real world solutions to some of the most important health disparities in the region.
“Do Pathogen Genotypes, Carriage, and Social Network Differences Lead to Health Disparities in MRSA/MSSA Infections?”
Principal Investigator
Associate Research Professor, Department of Biological Sciences/Pathogen and Microbiome Institute
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“Defining microbiological drivers of early childhood caries in preschoolers in southern Arizona” (Grant Year 4-5)
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor; School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems
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Completed Research Projects
“Elucidating the effects of arsenic and estrogen on wound healing”
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Practice, Center for Bioengineering Innovation
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Co-Principal Investigator
Research Infrastructure Core Co-Lead
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
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“Fibrillogenesis mediated phenotype switching of breast cancer cells”
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
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“Investigating the anti-tumor cytotoxicity of reovirus treated NK cells for cancer therapy”
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry