Live Blog: Arizona's Bioscience Roadmap
Welcome to the Flinn Foundation Bio Blog where you will receive the latest news throughout 2025 (and beyond) on the next iteration of Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap.
The Roadmap is the nation’s longest-running, statewide bioscience strategic plan. Bookmark this page for regular updates on the biosciences in Arizona and the development of the new Roadmap coming this fall.
Live Blog: Arizona's Bioscience Roadmap
News and Updates
It’s time for Arizona bioscience firms to apply for the Flinn Foundation entrepreneurship program
September 06, 2022
Funding. Connections. Support. That is what awaits the six Arizona-based early-stage bioscience firms competitively selected for the 2023 Flinn Foundation Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program. The application is now open. The deadline to apply is Nov. 7. The program, now in its…
Arizona Bioscience News: ASU, TGen herbicide research; Tech Council at 20; HonorHealth growth
September 01, 2022
Can a commonly used herbicide get into our brains? Arizona scientists want to find out / Arizona Republic Glyphosate, a chemical compound found in Roundup and other herbicides, can cross the blood-brain barrier and elevate levels of certain molecules that are associated…
Mayo Clinic continues expansion of medical education, research, and care in Arizona
August 31, 2022
Mayo Clinic first arrived in Arizona in the late 1980s with the opening of its Scottsdale hospital. About a decade later, the Minnesota-based medical institution opened a second Arizona hospital in north Phoenix, and in 2017, welcomed students to the…
Arizona Bioscience News: Maricopa medical campus; Alzheimer’s studies; UArizona’s Native FORGE
August 25, 2022
Medical, innovation campus with mix of uses proposed for growing city in Pinal County / Phoenix Business Journal A 1.6 million-square-foot, $762 million medical and innovation campus proposed for the city of Maricopa would include a life sciences center and…
Arizona Bioscience News: Tech Launch Arizona inventions; IdeaFunding returns in November; Monkeypox in Arizona
August 19, 2022
UA takes record number of new inventions to market / Arizona Daily Star Tech Launch Arizona, the University of Arizona’s technology commercialization arm, recorded 303 new faculty inventions in the fiscal year that ended June 30, up from 274 in…
Arizona Bioscience News: $1M to CEI LabForce; White Hat investor conference; NIH grant to NAU
August 11, 2022
$1 million in federal funds coming for bioscience workforce development / AZ Big Media A $1 million federal investment for Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation LabForce, secured for the Maricopa Community Colleges by Arizona Congressman Greg Stanton, will help develop a bioscience program to…
Arizona Bioscience News: $22M to UArizona for COVID-19 research; TGen studies herbicide and Alzheimer’s; Meet Reglagene’s Richard Austin
August 05, 2022
CDC grants UArizona $22 million to continue studying COVID-19 / KGUN The Center for Disease Control is awarding the University of Arizona $22 million that will enable the Arizona Healthcare, Emergency Response, and Other Essential Workers Surveillance, or AZ HEROES,…
