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: $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,…
20 years of TGen: Using genomics for medical benefit
July 29, 2022
The Flinn Foundation in 2002 launched Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap, which has guided the state’s growth in the biosciences over the past two decades. The Translational Genomics Research Institute, or TGen, began that same year in downtown Phoenix and quicky established…
Arizona Bioscience News: MindCrowd 2.0; Flagstaff Medical Center expansion; Autism housing study
July 29, 2022
TGen launches MindCrowd 2.0 / Frontdoors MindCrowd, a unique online research project by the Translational Genomics Research Institute aimed at finding the factors that affect the brain’s functioning as we age, has added new tests and smartphone access in its next push…
Arizona Bioscience News: VC surge; Tucson’s bioscience success; COVID in Arizona
July 21, 2022
Deal count is down, but Arizona’s VC investment surges in second quarter / Phoenix Business Journal The latest quarterly Venture Monitor report revealed Arizona companies hauled in $463 million during the latest quarter, up from $201 million a year earlier…
Arizona Bioscience News: Valley fever vaccine; $1.6M to wearable technology initiative; 25 years of SARRC
July 14, 2022
University of Arizona researchers one step closer to Valley fever vaccine / KOLD Researchers at the University of Arizona are one step closer to a long-awaited Valley fever vaccine, which could be available in vet offices starting next year to…
Arizona Bioscience News: ASU autoantibodies research; NAU, TGen study COVID immune response; Centauri Health Solutions wins AZ Inno award
July 07, 2022
How ‘autoantibodies’ could help us understand long COVID and other autoimmune diseases / Arizona Republic New research from Arizona State University suggests healthy people can create autoantibodies, which occur when the immune system mistakes part of the body for an…
