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
Arizona Bioscience News: Connect Labs workspace opens; New ventures for entrepreneurs; Psilocybin research
January 27, 2023
Life sciences startups find new home in downtown Phoenix Bioscience Core / Phoenix Business Journal (AZ Inno) Phoenix-area life sciences companies have a new shared workspace to conduct research and develop products at Connect Labs by Wexford on the fifth floor…
Arizona Bioscience News: Schott AG opens Phoenix hub; Arizona ranks high for female entrepreneurs; New COVID variant
January 12, 2023
Global firm opens $10M manufacturing facility in Phoenix as new U.S. hub / Phoenix Business Journal German company Schott AG is making Phoenix the base for its U.S. diagnostics division with a 40,000-square-foot facility that will manufacture rapid diagnostic devices…
Arizona Bioscience News: HTG raises $10M; Breast cancer survivor study; Bio, tech in 2023
January 05, 2023
HTG Molecular Diagnostics of Tucson raises $10M in public offering / Phoenix Business Journal Tucson-based HTG Molecular Diagnostics Inc., which uses transcriptome-wide profiling technology to advance research, clinical diagnostics, and therapeutics, recently raised $10 million in a public offering for research…
Arizona Bioscience News: $50M wellness campus; Phoenix-area CEO Network; COVID-19 cases drop
December 22, 2022
Nonprofit health system breaks ground on $50M Scottsdale wellness campus / Phoenix Business Journal HonorHealth has broken ground on a $50 million wellness campus in Scottsdale featuring a 100,000-square-foot ambulatory building plus sports medicine, primary care, imaging, and other services.…
Two decades of success as Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap turns 20
December 21, 2022
Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap was officially launched by the Flinn Foundation in a crowded ballroom at the Arizona Biltmore on Dec. 3, 2002. A public commitment to fund the biosciences for 10 years was made by the foundation—and later extended through…
Arizona Bioscience News: ASU wastewater testing; ColoGuard colorectal cancer screening; 12th annual SciTech Festival
December 15, 2022
Tempe was at the forefront of wastewater testing for COVID-19, other emerging health crises / KJZZ In the pandemic’s early days, Arizona State University transformed its wastewater monitoring project for the city of Tempe from an opioid monitor to a…
Acclaimed pathogen expert Paul Keim maintains commitment to NAU, Arizona
December 14, 2022
When the Flinn Foundation launched Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap in 2002, Paul Keim, Ph.D., was already playing a critical role in a federal anthrax investigation from his lab at Northern Arizona University. And throughout the ensuing 20 years of the Roadmap,…
