Category: Arizona Daily Star
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Arizona contractors brought in about $135 million in NASA grants and contracts in the last fiscal year, up about $20 million from the previous fiscal year. Not including awards to the University of Arizona, Tucson contractors and grantees received around $6.4 million in NASA contracts for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. NP Photonics,…
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NIH Grant .pdf Luceome Biotechnologies, a University of Arizona spinoff company, received a $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to commercialize its drug research technology. The grant award will help Luceome develop a product called KinaseSeeker that helps speed the process of finding effective cancer drugs. Indraneel Ghosh, a UA chemistry professor,…
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Tucson’s Better Business Bureau had received numerous complaints about ARS Rescue Rooter and even suspended its membership, but customers who looked up the contractor’s rating online this summer found it had an “A” grade. Jared Stokes, a Tucson resident, is locked in a battle with ARS Rescue Rooter over an air conditioner problem that caused…
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Glaucoma .pdf UA researchers are hoping a new tool will help glaucoma patients take their care into their own hands. Glaucoma occurs when pressure builds in the eye, either because the eye produces too much fluid or is unable to drain adequately, said Jill Brickman, director of the Student Sight Savers Glaucoma Screening Program at…
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By Michelle A. Monroe Arizona Daily Star .PDF of Article Less than a year after the University of Arizona’s Bio5 Institute opened a drug-research branch in Oro Valley, researchers there say they’re exceeding their goals. The Oro Valley facility, which opened Nov. 19, was designed to get new therapies and drugs to patients faster by…
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