Primary Faculty
 Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine - (Educator Scholar Track)
Associate Department Head, Education, Cellular and Molecular Medicine (520) 626-7480
Developing methods and content that will prepare students to be effective health care providers. |
 Associate Vice President for Research, Division of Agriculture, Life and Veterinary Sciences, and Cooperative Extension
Associate Dean, Research-Agriculture and Life Sciences Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology Professor, BIO5 Institute (520) 621-7201
Investigating the mechanisms regulating lineage diversification and morphogenesis during embryogenesis. |
 Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine - (Research Scholar Track) (Career Track)
(520) 626-1150
Exploring 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 Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering Director, iPS Cell Core (520) 626-2347
Using informatics to understand cardiovascular development and disease mechanisms using human induced pluripotent stem cells. |
 Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Assistant Professor, Physiological Sciences GIDP Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor, BIO5 Institute Assistant Professor, Clinical Translational Sciences (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 Professor, Applied Biosciences GIDP Professor, Cancer Biology GIDP (520) 626-7553
Studying 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, Cellular and Molecular Medicine (Educator Scholar Track)
Assistant Professor, Anthropology Director of Anatomy (520) 626-9299
Designing and developing digital teaching tools and apps in anatomy. |
 Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine - (Educator Scholar Track)
(520) 626-9925
Evaluating student heart rate during lectures as a measure of engagement and teaching effectiveness. |
 Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Professor, BIO5 Institute Professor, Cancer Biology GIDP Professor, Genetics GIDP (520) 626-4901
Exploring the synergistic activities of TGFbeta deficiency and the gut microbiome in colon cancer. |
 Director of Graduate Studies, Genetics GIDP
Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Scientific Director, Cancer Biology Research Program Associate Professor, Cancer Biology GIDP (520) 626-7979
Analyzing genomic instability in cancer susceptibility. |
 Executive Director, Curriculum and Integrative Learning, CoM Student Affairs
Research Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Assistant Professor of Practice, Teaching/Learning and Sociocultural Studies (520) 626-2203
Investigating the use of learning analytics to model medical student learning outcomes related to high stakes licensing exams. |
 Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Associate Professor, Neuroscience GIDP (520) 626-2103
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 Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Professor, Physiology Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology Professor, BIO5 Insitutue Professor, Physiological Sciences GIDP Professor, Biomedical Engineering (520) 626-3641
Discovering 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
Identifying the components and molecular mechanisms regulating cytoskeletal architecture in cardiac and skeletal muscle during normal development and in disease. |
 Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Professor, Physiological Sciences GIDP Professor, BIO5 Institute Professor, Biomedical Engineering Co-Chair, Arizona Biological and Biomedical Program (520) 621-0291
Exploring cardiac muscle mechanics, the regulation of myocardial contraction, the molecular basis of inherited cardiomyopathies, and myofilament proteins. |
 Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine (Research Scholar Track)
Associate Professor, Cancer Biology GIDP (520) 626-8044
Exploring the role and regulation of serine protease Kallikrein 6 in metastatic colon cancer. |
 Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Investigator, Center for Toxicology Professor, BIO5 Institute Professor, Public Health (520) 626-6716
Studying the pulmonary effects following early life exposure to environmental agents relevant to the southwestern United States (arsenic and arsenic containing dusts). |
 Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Assistant Professor, Immunobiology Assistant Professor, BIO5 Institute Assistant Professor, Clinical Translational Sciences 520-626-0276
Determining mechanisms by which endogenous lung proteins mediate various states of lung inflammation, pathogen infection and lung disease progression. |
 Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Associate Professor, Immunobiology Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute (520) 626-1044
Exploring the regulation and function of key cell surface receptors in cells of the immune system. |
 Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Associate Professor, Genetics GIDP Associate Professor, Cancer Biology GIDP (520) 626-9545
Exploring the connection between epigenetic instability and chromosome damage. |
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 Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Program Leader, Prostate Cancer Research Co-Program Leader, Cancer Biology Research Program Professor, BIO5 Institute (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
Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology GIDP (520) 626-4616
Understanding How Cytoskeletal Architecture Regulates Cancer Metastasis |
 Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine - (Research Scholar Track)
(520) 626-4198
Focusing on the role of titin-based mechanosensing in diaphragm physiology. |
 Research Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Coordinator, Biomedical Informatics (520) 626-0391
Investigating the 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) (Career Track)
Assistant Research Scientist, Respiratory Sciences (520) 626-9644
Studying the molecular mechanisms of allergy and asthma using mouse models. |
 Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine (Educator Scholar Track) (Career Track)
Developing and evaluating gross anatomy and embryology teaching methods. |
 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 Associate Professor, Cancer Biology GIDP Associate Professor, Genetics GIDP (520) 626-3925
Understanding cellular mechanisms that regulate centrosome duplication, nuclear organization, and genomic integrity. |
 Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Assistant Professor, Clinical Translational Sciences Faculty, BIO5 Institute Faculty, Genetics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program Member, Center for Applied Genetics and Genomic Medicine Member, Asthma & Airways Disease Research Center Member, UA Sarver Heart Center (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 Professor, Physiological Sciences GIDP (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. |
 Administrator, Center for Applied Genetics and Genomic
Associate Director, Genetic Counseling Graduate Program Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine - (Educator Scholar Track) 520-626-1621
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 Research Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
(520) 626-9048
Advancing knowledge on cancers including their biology, signal transduction and novel therapeutics. |
 Interim Director, Cancer Center Division
Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Professor, Radiation Oncology Associate Director, Basic Sciences, University of Arizona Cancer Center (520) 626-2548
Discovering mechanistic insights into the roles of aberrant DNA repair in the development of cancer, autoimmunity, and other diseases. |
 Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Assistant Professor, 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 Professor, Genetics GIDP (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 Director, Willed Body Program (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. |
 Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Associate Head for Research Investigation of in vivo and in vitro Organoid Models of Gastrointestinal Diseases |