Program Faculty News

Dr. Jianfeng Xu

Study Finds that Blood Test Can Gauge Prostate Cancer Risk - 1/16/08   New genomics research has found that a simple blood test can determine which men are likely to develop prostate cancer....

Dr. Mark Van Dyke

Protein in Human Hair Shows Promise for Regenerating Nerves – 1/10/08  A protein found in human hair shows promise for promoting the regeneration of nerve tissue and could lead to a new treatment option when nerves are cut or crushed from trauma...

Travel Award Recipients

Congratulations goes out to Megan Spurgeon, graduate student in the Molecular Genetics & Genomics Program, for receiving the 2007-2008 Alumni Student Travel Award. This award was made possible through the contributions of alumni and friends to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Annual Fund. Make a gift online. 

Alumni Spotlight - Felicia Dare Goodrum (1998)
Felicia Goodrum is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Immunobiology at the University of Arizona. She is a member of the BIO5 Institute and the Arizona Cancer Center. She received her doctorate degree from the Molecular Genetics Program at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 1998. Dr. Goodrum was a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Fellow and Special Fellow and the recipient of a Howard Temin Award from the National Cancer Institute during her postdoctoral training at Princeton University in the Department of Molecular Biology. Dr. Goodrum’s research focuses on human cytomegalovirus infection and latency in primary human hematopoietic progenitor cells using molecular, cellular, and animal approaches.