Award-Winning Regents Professor to
Head New Basic Medical Sciences Department at UA
Mark R. Haussler, PhD, Regents Professor at The
University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson has been appointed founding
head of the Department of Basic Medical Sciences-Phoenix Program, a new
department at the UA College of Medicine - Phoenix approved by the Arizona Board
of Regents on Dec. 2, 2005.
Haussler joined The University of Arizona
faculty in 1971, and has been a Regents Professor since 1990. His research
laboratory at the
The Haussler lab group has published 260
papers and has been continuously funded by National Institutes of Health
research grants for 34 years. His translational research investigations
have been innovative and novel, revealing fundamental insights into how the
vitamin D hormone functions through its nuclear receptor to control gene
expression. He has won numerous prestigious international scientific
awards.
Haussler has trained dozens of young
scientists and educators at The University of Arizona, many of whom have
achieved distinguished academic careers. He is an award-winning classroom
teacher of first-year medical students, having been honored as a "Lifetime Basic
Sciences Educator," and of graduate students in the laboratory and lecture
settings.
The appointment to lead the Phoenix-based
department is effective Jan. 1, 2006. The Basic Medical Sciences
Department faculty will educate a new generation of physicians at the first
allopathic medical school program in Phoenix, established in collaboration with
Arizona State University and the Translational Genomics Research Institute. The
UA College of Medicine-Phoenix is poised to tap into the vast biomedical
resources in the metropolitan
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