Primary Faculty
 Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine - (Educator Scholar Track)
Associate Department Head, Education, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Foundations Block Director (520) 626-7480
Developing methods and content that will prepare students to be effective health care providers. I direct the Foundations Block of the pre-clinical medical curriculum and teach histology throughout the pre-clinical curriculum. |
 Associate Dean, Research-Agriculture and Life Sciences
Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine (520) 621-7201
Research in our laboratory investigates mechanisms regulating lineage diversification and morphogenesis during embryogenesis. |
 Research Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
(520) 626-1150
My research interests are focused on the synthesis and trafficking of RNA in muscle cells and the molecular genetics of muscle cell diseases. |
 Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Assistant Professor, Genetics GIDP Assistant Professor, Physiological Sciences GIDP Director, iPS Cell Core (520) 626-2347
Informatics to understand cardiovascular development and disease mechanisms using human induced pluripotent stem cells |
 Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
(520) 621-1950
Deciphering the structural basis for cardiac muscle contraction at the molecular level in healthy heart physiology and disease. |
 Deputy Dean, Research Affairs
Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Professor, Radiation Oncology Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology (520) 626-7553
We study the molecular mechanisms of human cancer progression and metastasis and the regulation of cell surface adhesion molecules, called integrins. |
 Research Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Assistant Research Scientist, Asthma & Airway Disease Research Center (520) 626-8639
Developing new single-cell genomic technologies and applying those technologies to animal models and primary samples to better understand the gene regulatory basis of development and disease. |
 Associate Professor, (Educator Scholar Track)
Director of Anatomy (520) 626-9299
My research interest is the design and development of digital teaching tools and apps in anatomy. |
 Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine - (Educator Scholar Track)
(520) 626-9925
My current research involves evaluating student heart rate during lecture as a measure of engagement and teaching effectiveness. |
 Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Professor, BIO5 Institute (520) 626-4901
Synergistic activities of TGFbeta deficiency and the gut microbiome in colon cancer. |
 Assistant Professor Emeritus, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
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 Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Scientific Director, Cancer Biology Research Program (520) 626-7979
Genetic analysis of genomic instability in cancer susceptibility. |
 Director, Student Development, COM Student Affairs
Research Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine (520) 626-2203
Athena Ganchorre investigates the use of learning analytics to model medical student learning outcomes related to high stakes licensing exams. |
 Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
(520) 626-2103
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 Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Professor, Physiology Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology Professor, BIO5 Insitutue (520) 626-3641
Mechanisms whereby the giant filamentous protein titin influence muscle structure and function. |
 Vice Dean for Innovation and Development – COM - Tucson
Department Head, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Co-Director, Sarver Heart Center Director, Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology Professor, BIO5 Institute (520) 626-8113
The research in my laboratory is focused on identifying the components and molecular mechanisms regulating cytoskeletal architecture in cardiac and skeletal muscle during normal development and in disease. |
 Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
(520) 621-0291
Cardiac muscle mechanics; regulation of myocardial contraction; molecular basis of inherited cardiomyopathies; myofilament proteins. |
 Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Res - (Research Scholar Track)
(520) 626-8044
My research is currently focused on the role and regulation of serine protease Kallikrein 6 in metastatic colon cancer. Other research area is polyamine metabolism in inflammation-induced gastrointestinal malignancies. |
 Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology Research Scientist, Sarver Heart Center (520) 626-9370
My research seeks to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying organ development in the vertebrate embryo. |
 Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Associate Department Head, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Investigator, Center for Toxicology Professor, BIO5 Institute Professor, Public Health (520) 626-6716
Our lab studies the pulmonary effects following early life exposure to environmental agents relevant to the southwestern United States (arsenic and arsenic containing dusts). |
 Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Assistant Professor, Medicine 520-626-0276
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 Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Associate Professor, Immunobiology Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute (520) 626-1044
My research explores the regulation and function of key cell surface receptors in cells of the immune system. |
 Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
(520) 626-9545
Connection between epignetic instability and chromosome damage. |
 Professor, Emeritus
Research has focused on: (a) the interactive role of bacterial toxins with toxicants in liver pathophysiology; (b) the role of milk-borne substances in liver development; and (c) ageing of the liver. |
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 Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Program Leader, Prostate Cancer Research (520) 626-2269
Defining the mechanisms by which cell adhesion and the tumor microenvironment promote prostate cancer progression and metastasis. |
 Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
(520) 626-4616
Understanding How Cytoskeletal Architecture Regulates Cancer Metastasis |
 Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
(520) 626-4198
The Ottenheijm Lab focuses on the role of titin-based mechanosensing in diaphragm physiology. |
 Research Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
(520) 626-0391
To investigate underlying molecular profiles in cancer patient data using integrated computational analysis of multi-omics data in the context of disease outcome, treatment and progression. |
 Research Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
(520) 626-5209
My work is focused on understanding how the architecture of muscle cells is regulated, with particular emphasis on how actin filaments assemble and how aberrant actin filament assembly leads to myopathies. |
 Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine - (Research Scholar Track)
Assistant Research Scientist, Respiratory Sciences (520) 626-9644
I study molecular mechanisms of allergy and asthma using mouse models. |
 Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Associate Department Head, Faculty Development, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute (520) 626-3925
Understanding cellular mechanisms that regulate centrosome duplication, nuclear organization, and genomic integrity. |
 Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
BIO5 Fellow, BIO5 Institute Faculty, Genetics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program Member, Center for Applied Genetics and Genomic Medicine (520) 626-7244
Systems genetics approaches to identify mechanisms of complex disease. |
 Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Research Scientist, Sarver Heart Center Investigator, Center for Toxicology (520) 626-2326
Research in this lab is focused on 3 projects. A. Regulation of epithelial-mesenchymal transition in heart development and cancer. B. Mitochondrial transfer from stem cells to myocytes. C. Congenital heart disease from exposure to trichloroethylene. |
 Assistant Professor/Research, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
(520) 626-9048
I am interested in research that advances our knowledge on cancers including their biology, signal transduction and novel therapeutics. |
 Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Member, BIO5 Institute Member, University of Arizona Cancer Center Member, Steele Children's Research Center (520) 626-0395
Combining chemical biology and computer vision approaches to discover cellular communication mechanisms controlling cell fate, self-organization and disease progression of regenerative tissues |
 Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Associate Director, Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center Director, Arizona Center for the Biology of Complex Diseases Professor, BIO5 Institute (520) 626-6387
Genetic, epigenetic and environmental mechanisms that control susceptibility to complex lung diseases |
 Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
(520) 626-7756
Understanding the complex biological mechanisms that allow cancer cells to thrive in the hypoxic tumor microenvironment and developing new therapeutic strategies to oppose hypoxia-mediated therapeutic resistance. |
 Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Professor, BIO5 Institute (520) 626-2557
The Wilson laboratory works on the establishment and maintenance of the integrity of the intestine through the regulation of membrane trafficking to the apical plasma membrane domain. |