Health and Food Safety

Chemical and environmental engineering professor Dr. Erin Ratcliff will lead a national collaboration to create solar fuels and storage technologies that are more durable and sustainable, but less expensive.

UArizona BME assistant professor Philipp Gutruf specializes in bioelectronics that integrate with the human body. One of his recent developments is "osseosurface electronics" or, more simply, computers that grow to the surface of the bone.

Summer programs through the UArizona Health Sciences Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion focus on fostering diversity in health professions and setting students up for graduate and medical school success. Two students, Emma Gallardo Martinez and Tawanda Zvavamwe, provided a glimpse into their 10-week experiences.

A team of researchers from UArizona and Northern Arizona University is creating a regenerable method for removing stubborn toxins from drinking water – starting with store-bought sponges.

Studies by UArizona Health Sciences, in collaboration with Tucson Fire Department, have helped provide evidence that occupational exposure does pose a cancer risk to firefighters.

The One Health approach to research connects experts in human, animal and environmental health to improve health outcomes for all.

Jared and Kat Alvarado are funeral directors for the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson’s Willed Body Program, which accepts whole body donations committed by Arizonans before they die to be used as educational tools after their deaths.

With the help and research of UArizona researchers, The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) recently classified occupational exposure as a firefighter as carcinogenic. Numerous studies revealed that the exposure on the job as a firefighter causes cancer and reveals a need to understand reduction of exposure and prevention.

30 Women in the area of research and innovation have been elected as part of the inaugural class of the UArizona Women of Impact. Out of these 30, 8 are BIO5 members, yet all of the elected women are laying the groundwork for a brighter future.

Xander is a high school senior and researcher at the University of Arizona S.T.A.R. Lab. His studies in the Palanivelu Lab have centered around discovering stress-tolerant crops and included mRNA transcript analyses of incompatible tomato crosses and tomato pollen tube growth under heat stress.