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Bhaskar Bannerjee, MD, who served on the U of A College of Medicine – Tucson’s faculty for 16 years — seven as GI division chief — died June 19. A U of A memorial service for colleagues to celebrate his life is in the works. It will be announced soon.

U of A researchers found that a group of proteins involved in neuronal development was overrepresented in the umbilical cord blood of about one-third of babies born small for gestational age.

Nearly 40 physicians graduate this summer with advanced specialty training in internal medicine from the U of A Department of Medicine’s 17 fellowship programs. Festivities began in May and finish by summer’s end, with more trainees joining us July 1.

A University of Arizona-led team finds that mitochondria — the cell’s power plants — plug directly into the nucleus, fueling the genes that build the heart, brain and body.

“We are deeply committed to advancing patient care through the power of clinical research,” says Corey Casper, MD, MPH, Banner’s chief research officer and a Division of Infectious Diseases professor at the College of Medicine – Tucson.

Regents Professor Juanita Merchant, MD, PhD, devotes her career to “hedgehog,” a cell signaling pathway that may hold keys for improving neuroendocrine cancer treatment and help identify new drug targets.

With Division of Endocrinology presenters Ronadip Banerjee, MD, PhD, division chief, and Jennifer Stern, PhD, the key focus was on glucagon and GLP-1 receptor agonists’ role in weight-loss and healthspan improvement as we age.

With a focus on pandemics, lungs and sleep research, this NIH-funded program is recruiting biomedical sciences research candidates for the 12th cohort of an scientific training fellowship led by Sairam Parthasarathy, MD, Francisco Moreno, MD, and Janko Nikolich, MD, PhD. Starting in July, it’s open to applicants from across the U of A Health Sciences. Learn more and apply.

With multiple Department of Medicine faculty acting as judges and evaluators, poster and oral vignette presenters outdid themselves at this annual event to cap off research projects often presented at symposiums and conferences around the nation.

With a high of six for the Division of Inpatient Medicine and five each for the Hematology & Oncology and Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine divisions, this is the most promotions in decades for the department. Congrats, one and all!