Research Events and Training - 2026 Research Week

The Translational Research Office (TReO) is proud to host the College’s 2nd Annual Research Week from April 29 – May 5, 2026.

This week features a dynamic lineup of events celebrating innovation, collaboration, and discovery across our research community. More details to follow.

Schedule & Agendas

The college’s second Research Week will continue to foster collaboration and highlight exciting research projects and discoveries across diverse groups at various training levels.

Thanks to our generous sponsors, the Arizona Biomedical Research Centre and the Flinn Foundation, there is no cost to attend these events.

30^th Annual Michael D. Grossman Academic Excellence Day

The mission of Academic Excellence Day is to promote an environment of academic excellence amongst trainees in our participating institutions. The 30th Annual Michael D. Grossman Academic Excellence Day will provide an opportunity for residents and fellows in training programs in the greater Phoenix area to showcase the volume of bench and clinical research and quality improvement initiatives being performed. In 2026, we will be offering a hybrid format of virtual posters with an in-person oral presentation event. We would like to thank our sponsor, the Mica Medical Foundation, for their continued support of this event. 

• Recap of last year's Academic Excellence Day.

Biomedical Research Day: Bridging Science and Health

Biomedical Research Day will showcase the latest discoveries by featured faculty speakers as well as undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral trainees at the U of A College of Medicine – Phoenix. All trainees will be invited to prepare posters to present their research findings. Top abstracts in Cardiovascular/Pulmonary, Neuroscience and Cancer Cell Biology/Immunology will be selected for oral presentations.

We are excited to announce Dr. Christian Bime, Dr. Iannis Adamopoulos and Dr. Camila de Avila Dal Bo as our featured faculty speakers. 

Research Education and Career Development Day

Friday will include multiple presentations focused on career development and research education. The day will kick off with Grand Rounds, with a presentation from Corey Casper, MD, MPH. Dr. Casper received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College and a Masters in Public Health from the University of Washington. Board certified in Infectious Disease, he continues to see patients with cancer and infectious diseases at Banner Health and has received numerous awards for his clinical care. 

Next up, the Center for Biotech Research Development and Entrepreneurialism (BRDE) will host Rong Wang, President and CEO of NuvOx Therapeutics. Rong was trained as an engineer and received an MBA from University of Michigan. She has more than 20 years’ experiences in finance, operation, and business development, serving both public and private companies. She is passionate about the biotech/life science industry because of the noble causes and complexities.

Our Health Sciences Librarians, Victoria Caine and Rachel Martinez, will continue their education initiative with a presentation geared to inform staff, faculty, and students of best practices. 

The Office of Research and Partnerships (ORP) will be joining us again for Research Week, providing insight into their many available resources. ORP will also be hosting tables in the HSEB lobby from 11 am – 2 pm for faculty and staff to engage with department representatives. 

16^th Annual Scholarly Project Research Symposium

The Scholarly Project Research Symposium is a forum for attendees to engage with the Class of 2026 medical students and inquire about their scholarly projects and results during multiple poster sessions. Every student at the College designs and successfully completes a hypothesis-driven research Scholarly Project (SP) and works closely with mentors throughout the four years of their project. Through this process, students learn about medical information literacy, life-long learning, teamwork, effective communication, research methods, evidence-based medicine approaches and ethics related to scholarly inquiry.

If you have any questions or would like to request information, please contact Robyn McDannold, Program Manager, at @email.

• Recap of last year's Scholarly Project Symposium.

11^th Annual ABRC-Flinn Research Conference

This annual research conference brings together grant awardees from the Arizona Biomedical Research Centre and the Flinn Foundation to showcase their research advances. This all-day, in-person event features presentations from distinguished speakers, poster presentations from grant awardees, and a networking reception. 

We are proud to announce Dr. Corey Casper and Dr. Nicholas Theodore as our featured speakers for this year’s conference. 

• Recap of last year's ABRC-Flinn Research Conference.

If you have any questions about Research Week, please email @email.