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: Valley fever grant; Humabiologics continues rapid growth; Banner Health expansion
April 14, 2022
With new grant funding, researchers hope to identify Valley fever hotspots / KJZZ The Arizona Board of Regents is putting $4.5 million toward Valley fever research over the next three years that will enable researchers from the state’s three public universities to…
Flinn awards $5.5M grant to UArizona medical school in Phoenix to support translational research
April 07, 2022
The University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix will receive $5.5 million over five years from the Flinn Foundation to support translational research in cardiovascular diseases, neurosciences, and serious mental illnesses. The grant, which will help advance research in these areas…
Arizona Bioscience News: New UArizona center targets immunotherapies; Mayo Clinic breaks ground on new building; SARSEF holds 67th annual fair
April 07, 2022
UArizona selects downtown Phoenix for research center targeting immunotherapies / Phoenix Business Journal (AZ Inno) University of Arizona has selected the Phoenix Bioscience Core for the new Center for Advanced Molecular and Immunological Therapies, or CAMI, that will develop treatments…
Arizona Bioscience News: Phoenix Bioscience Core; The work of TGen North; COVID hospitalizations at record low
March 31, 2022
How Phoenix Bioscience Core is revolutionizing healthcare / AZ Big Media Years of investments, planning and development are now bearing fruit as life science companies and university researchers improve health while bringing new opportunities to Arizona at the Phoenix Bioscience…
Arizona Bioscience News: Cautious optimism for COVID; Underrepresented join medical studies; MetFora launched at UArizona
March 24, 2022
The BA.2 variant: What you need to know about the strain known as ‘stealth omicron’ in Arizona / Arizona Republic BA.2 is not yet causing a rise in cases in Arizona like it is in other parts of the world,…
Arizona Bioscience News: UArizona spinoffs advance; Seres Therapeutics seeks healthy stool; New omicron variant in Arizona
March 17, 2022
UA battery tech, diagnostic tech spinoffs advance / Arizona Daily Star University of Arizona tech spinoffs advancing new battery and medical diagnostic technologies have taken important steps toward taking their inventions to market. Get paid up to $1,200 a month…
Arizona Bioscience News: Venture Madness winners; NeoLight expands vision; Podcast on pollen as crime-fighter
March 10, 2022
Four startup winners named in Venture Madness 2022 pitch contest / Phoenix Business Journal (AZ Inno) Taproot Interventions and Solutions, which runs a care management software for caregivers treating patients with Alzheimer’s and other mental illnesses, and Botco.ai, an artificial…
