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 Center for Civic Leadership chooses statewide leaders for Flinn-Brown Fellowship
May 16, 2022
The Arizona Center for Civic Leadership at the Flinn Foundation has selected the 2022 Flinn-Brown Fellows, 27 leaders who will participate in Arizona’s most prestigious leadership program on state policy and politics. Members of the 14th cohort of Flinn-Brown Fellows,…
Arizona Bioscience News: Startups from Phoenix Children’s; EvolvedMD raises $5.4M; Mapping 100K COVID-19 genomes
May 12, 2022
Phoenix Children’s to spin out 6 startups with help from Coplex / Phoenix Business Journal (AZ Inno) Phoenix Children’s has entered a new partnership to help develop and spin out some of its ideas into six startups over the next three years…
Arizona Bioscience News: Arizona Republic goes in-depth on latent viruses; Arizona universities combat Valley fever; Tucson venom experts pursue drug discovery
May 05, 2022
You caught a virus and recovered. But what happens when that virus stays inside you forever? / Arizona Republic An in-depth series examining latent viruses—which may lie dormant for decades and in some cases inhabit 80-90% of the human population—and the complex…
Arizona Bioscience News: Caris Life Sciences opens Phoenix lab; Banner Health’s sports medicine center; Clever Health acquires firm
April 28, 2022
Texas firm opens $45M liquid biopsy laboratory in Phoenix, hiring hundreds / Phoenix Business Journal Caris Life Sciences is opening a $45 million, 34,000-square-foot liquid biopsy laboratory in Phoenix, where the Texas-based molecular science company plans to fill hundreds of bioscience jobs…
Arizona Bioscience News: Bio sector reaches record highs; Phoenix Startup Week ready to begin; 50,000 Arizonans join All of Us program
April 21, 2022
Arizona’s bioscience sector hits record highs 20 years into strategic plan / Phoenix Business Journal Arizona’s bioscience sector reached record highs in bioscience jobs, wages, venture capital, National Institutes of Health research funding and university research and development, according to new performance…
Arizona’s bioscience sector hits record highs 20 years into strategic plan
April 20, 2022
Arizona’s bioscience sector is performing at historically high levels two decades after the creation of Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap placed the state on a long-term trajectory toward success. The April 20 report, the latest performance analysis commissioned by the Phoenix-based Flinn…
Flinn Foundation awards $1 million in grants to promote groundbreaking translational research
April 15, 2022
The first treatment for West Nile virus. A robotic device for children with cerebral palsy. A universal antivenom for snake bites. These goals emerge from three of the 10 translational research projects receiving funding from the Flinn Foundation in 2022…
