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UANews | At the completion of the two-year Cancer Prevention and Control Fellowship Program, participants are positioned to be competitive for grant funding and as future leaders in the field of cancer prevention and control.

UANews | Could a misguided signaling protein trigger the most deadly of brain cancers? A team led by the UA's Sourav Ghosh received funding from the National Institutes of Health to identify potential targets for new anti-cancer drugs.

UANews | Dr. Eric M. Reiman has been named a 2010 Rock Star of Science, joining scientific leaders and musicians in a campaign to celebrate biomedical research. Reiman participated in a photo shoot for the December issue of GQ Magazine, which pays tribute to "scientific heroes" in medical research.

UANews | UA researchers are studying high blood sugar in sheep to help establish abaseline for eventual clinical guidelines in treating pregnant women withgestational diabetes. Babies born to these women have a greater risk ofdeveloping obesity and Type 2 diabetes when they're older.

UANews | The UA has officially dedicated its new BIO5 Oro Valley facility. The space will allow the University to expand its efforts to get new therapies and drug discoveries to the market and patients faster.

UANews | UA instructors fostered the first class of Ethiopian students graduating with master's degrees in disaster risk science and sustainable development at Bahir Dar University. Two more groups are in the pipeline, and plans are to train non-academic professionals as well.

UANews | A two-year, $500,000 grant will go toward a project to assess the effectiveness of 1997 federal legislation that financially helps qualified hospitals. Gautam Gowisankaran and his colleagues will conduct the research.

UANews | Monthly injections of the drug in breast cancer patients whose disease had spread to the bone helped reduce pain and prevent complications with less toxicity than current treatments. Dr. Alison T. Stopeck, director of the Arizona Cancer Center's clinical breast cancer program, led the research.

UANews | A $600,000 U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant will allow UA scientists to investigate and collect information on children born with spina bifida. Drs. Sydney Rice and Christopher Cunniff are leading the study.

UANews | A USDA-funded project at the UA aims to increase the safety and quality of organic leafy greens and profitability for farmers. The endeavor includes outreach and an education program.

UANews | UA researcher Sandra Rosenbloom will tell federal transportation officials that the time has come to plan for a much larger cohort of older people who will still need to get around. Most older seniors will be women, who will have a different set of mobility issues than men.

UANews | Dr. David Labiner and Jenny Chong will measure the incidence of epilepsy across ethnic groups among seniors in Southeastern Arizona and identify factors that predict clinical outcomes.

UANews | UA scientists have discovered that sensory nerve fibers surrounding tumors – once thought to be static in nature – undergo a remarkable and pathological remodeling and growth that generates and amplifies cancer pain. The researchers also identified a treatment to help alleviate the pain.

UANews | A 19-year UA study shows that the end product of municipally treated wastewater is generally free of pathogenic organisms that might harm humans or the environment. Biosolids are used as fertilizer across a variety of agricultural activities.