05/29/2008 | Multiple myeloma is a relatively rare form of cancer, accounting for around 1 percent of all cancer diagnoses. But even at that frequency, it affects a huge number of people: This year, in the United States alone, 20,000 people will be diagnosed with the disease, which is the second most common cancer of the blood. For myeloma patients and many others living with cancer, the work of Rafael Fonseca is vital.

07/01/2008 | University of Arizona president Robert Shelton announced today a significant restructuring of UA's health-sciences units, including creation of a new position, the vice president for health affairs. The new vice president will oversee several health-related colleges and manage relations with university-affiliated hospitals and a university physicians group. Dr. Shelton also announced that the current College of Medicine dean, Keith Joiner, will step down to return to the faculty.

07/01/2008 | State bioscience interests achieved an escape worthy of Houdini in the Arizona Legislature's just-completed budget process. Early Friday, the Legislature passed a $9.9 billion budget for fiscal year 2009, which begins today, erasing a projected shortfall of $2 billion and leaving intact three of the funding priorities dearest to bioscience advocates.

06/30/2008 | Earlier this month, Arizona sent its largest delegation yet to the BIO 2008 International Convention, and the state enjoyed a position of greater prominence than ever before at what has become the premiere annual event for the bioscience industry.

06/26/2008 | Felicia Goodrum, a University of Arizona virologist and a member of the BIO5 Institute, has been named one of 20 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences. The $240,000 award, one of the nation's highest honors for early- to mid-career researchers, will support Dr. Goodrum's study of the human cytomegalovirus, which more than half the world's population carries latently.