What a great kickoff meeting this week for the Flinn Foundation seed grants program’s 10th cohort at the University of Arizona’s Tech Launch Arizona in Tucson. The 10 research teams from U of A and Arizona State University received $100,000 each to help develop medical devices, diagnostics, therapeutics, and technology to treat brain tumors, migraines, chronic pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, pregnancy, cardiovascular disease, Parkinson’s disease, and colorectal cancer.
The Flinn Foundation has awarded 83 seed grants totaling about $9.5 million over a decade, helping accomplish the Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap goal of increasing the ability of research-performing institutions to turn bench research results into improved disease and illness prevention, detection, and treatment.