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: TRIF spurs innovations; AZ Inno Madness bracket introduced; COVID boosters protect during omicron
March 03, 2022
Record levels of sales tax income spur innovations at Arizona universities / Phoenix Business Journal (AZ Inno) The Arizona Board of Regents Technology and Research Initiative Fund, which is projected to receive $122.5 million in fiscal year 2022, is launching…
Arizona Bioscience News: Dignity Health heart disease study; Tucson cancer-drug firm acquired; Phoenix Biomedical Campus to add two towers
February 25, 2022
An Arizona study will use DNA testing to determine risk of heart disease / KJZZ Dignity Health is launching the first study of its kind in North America that will use DNA to determine a person’s risk of heart disease.…
Seven Arizona bioscience startups to watch in 2022
February 24, 2022
Metro Phoenix, Tucson firms to earn $30K through Flinn Foundation entrepreneurship program A regenerative treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, a respiratory-assist device to improve COPD patient care, a blood-based test for colorectal cancer, and a treatment to solve bad dog breath…
Arizona Bioscience News: Future of COVID-19; Banner MD Anderson opens Gilbert research unit; UArizona studies post-stroke dementia
February 17, 2022
Scientists want to stop the next pandemic before it starts. Here are the tests they’re building to do it / Arizona Republic Arizona scientists are sequencing genomes, surveilling animal populations and researching ecology and environmental policy to better understand and…
Arizona Bioscience News: ASU develops cheap rapid test; UACI names assistant director; Phoenix a top place to launch startup
February 10, 2022
Researchers make cheap, portable nanosensor for disease detection / KJZZ Researchers at Arizona State University and University of Washington have developed a cheap, portable, rapid test for viruses like Ebola and SARS-CoV-2 with electronic data that can go directly to…
The Lab at azcentral to tell bioscience stories of Arizona
February 07, 2022
The Arizona Republic has launched a new podcast to enhance its storytelling of the biosciences in Arizona. The Lab at azcentral features host Alexandra Watts and bioscience reporter Melina Walling, who plan to share the stories of researchers and scientists, those…
Arizona BioPreneur Conference: Spring Into Commercialization
February 04, 2022
Registration is now open for the Arizona BioPreneur Conference: Spring Into Commercialization March 25, 202211 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.850 PBC, Phoenix Join Arizona’s BioPreneurs—the state’s community of life-science entrepreneurs—for a day of learning and networking focused on commercialization. REGISTER Keynote…
