As we grow older, our bodies naturally produce less of the proteins our brains need to work, affecting one’s recall. In most instances, this is a natural part of aging.
When the proteins begin to dismantle connections within the brain cells, however, the rapid severity of memory loss is typically associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
A scientific grou
As researchers and clinicians work toward developing new treatments for many of today’s leading cancers, an area that remains challenging and poses far more questions than answers is how to stop cancer from metastasizing to the brain.
Today, improved drug treatments provide many cancer patients longer lives, and in many instances, these therapeutics knock do
The number of Americans who are overweight has increased dramatically in the past two decades.
Today, 2 of 3 American adults suffer from obesity. Increasingly, many are reaching beyond diet and exercise to help stave off hunger and shed pounds — nearly 200,000 turned to bariatric surgery in 2009 as a means to achieve their weight loss goals.
But such surg
Roger Magowitz grew up in a broken home, in a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn — humble beginnings for someone who would become a highly successful businessman.
But he had an advantage: He learned at an early age how to turn small connections into big opportunities.
His mother had gone to Lafayette High School with Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax and
Dr. Lance Price, Director of TGen North’s Center for Metagenomics and Human Health, discovered science through his father’s legacy.
Along with Dr. MacDonald Wood, Dr. William Ray “Bill” Price co-founded the Arizona Burn Center in 1965 at Maricopa General Hospital. Today, the Level I Burn Center, now part of the Maricopa Medical Center, is the second largest
Scottsdale was still a small town in 1967 when Russ Jackson teamed with his friend Tom Barrett to auction a single car — a 1933 Cadillac V16 Town Car — raising funds for local charities, libraries and the arts.
Four decades later, the now-famous Barrett-Jackson annually stages four World’s Greatest Collector Car Auctions across the United States, including o
Time is money. Money is time. These two common phrases carry considerable consequence for non-profits. Ray Thurston’s contributions to TGen provide added value in both contexts.
Thurston, the founder of Sonic Air, is fascinated with quickly getting from one place to another, whether that means people, packages or ideas.
“It became our culture of consta
A decade ago, doctors told Troy Richards that he might have only 6-8 months to live. During a scan of a hernia, doctors found an 8-inch-long tumor – about the size of a football – growing atop his left kidney.
The news came as an incredible shock to Richards, an energetic Tucson businessman who at the time owned multiple Wendy’s restaurant franchises. Espec
A Collaborative Effort
Dr. Meurice will lead the Southwest Comprehensive Center for Drug Discovery and Development’s computational chemistry efforts, while Co-PI’s Dr. Christopher Hulme, Associate Professor at the UA College of Pharmacy will lead the center’s medicinal chemistry efforts and TGen Sr. Investigator Dr. Spyro Mousses, will lead the high throug
For more than three decades, the “Sanger” method dominated genetic sequencing – the spelling out of the A’s, G’s, C’s and T’s in a molecule of DNA in search of the variations that cause human disease.
Named for Dr. Frederick Sanger, an English biochemist and two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry, the Sanger method provided science in the late 1970s an advanc
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