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Six Arizona startups driving biosciences forward in 2024

April 03, 2024

Arizona-based bioscience companies developing blood tests to diagnose cancer and other diseases more quickly and accurately, AI tools to automate lab work, and an alternative way to treat itchiness in dogs have been selected for the 2024 Flinn Foundation Bioscience…


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Flinn Foundation names leadership of Arizona’s statewide bioscience committee

February 27, 2024

Higher education executive Heather Carter, UArizona biomedical engineer Jennifer Barton to serve as chair, vice chair Heather Carter and Jennifer Barton, accomplished Arizona leaders in the biosciences, higher education, and public policy, have been named chair and vice chair of…


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Flinn Foundation adds two Phoenix business leaders to its board of directors

February 12, 2024

Arizona business leaders Chris Camacho and Adam Goodman—the heads of Greater Phoenix Economic Council and Goodmans, respectively—have been elected to the Flinn Foundation board of directors. Camacho, an advocate for the biosciences, other innovation industries, and the arts has served…


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Flinn Foundation funds Arizona research teams to drive discoveries into clinical settings

January 03, 2024

Ten research teams from three Arizona institutions have been awarded $100,000 each from the Flinn Foundation Seed Grants to Promote Translational Research Program to help turn their findings into viable treatments and diagnostics.


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Center for the Future of Arizona and Flinn Foundation release new civic health data

November 15, 2023

PHOENIX—Center for the Future of Arizona (CFA), a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization committed to bringing Arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for the state, releases new data highlighting Arizona’s need for improved civic engagement in partnership with the…


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Flinn Foundation Executive Vice President, Bradley W. Halvorsen.

Flinn’s Brad Halvorsen named 2023 Arizona Bioscience Leader of the Year

September 21, 2023

When Brad Halvorsen first set foot in the Flinn Foundation offices, Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap did not exist. The iconic Flinn building along Central Avenue near downtown Phoenix was a decade away from construction. The Flinn Scholarship was in its infancy. …


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Flinn translational research seed grants advancing Arizona’s bioscience goals

August 10, 2023

By Mary O’Reilly, Ph.D.Flinn Foundation The Flinn Foundation Seed Grants to Promote Translational Research Program has aimed since its inception a decade ago to bridge the gap between Arizona’s academic researchers and clinicians and enable them to work together to…


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