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
Researchers working on cancer detection blood test
October 16, 2008
[Source: ALAN FISCHER, Tucson Citizen] – Researchers are working on a simple blood test to detect cancer a year before symptoms develop.“Stopping cancer early is the best solution,” Dr. Samir M. Hanash told about 270 people attending the Biosciences Leadership…
NIH Names 27 New Centers for National Children’s Study; Recruiting Starts in January
October 16, 2008
[Source: By a GenomeWeb staff reporter , Genome Web News] – The National Institutes of Health on Friday kicked off the next phase of a long-term study of genes and the environment, which will study 100,000 children around the country,…
Computer science professor Richard Snodgrass will help lead a project with funding from the National Science Foundation.
October 16, 2008
[Source: La Monica Everett-Haynes, University Communications] – A project is underway to develop a system that would be able to detect and track even minute changes in electronic data systems that hold sensitive and private information. University of Arizona computer…
Research expenditures shoot up during 2008 fiscal year
October 16, 2008
[Source: Skip Derra, [email protected], ASU] – Arizona State University
Helios Education Foundation awards $1M grant to Phoenix autism group
October 03, 2008
[Source: Phoenix Business Journal ] – Helios Education Foundation awarded the Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center a $1 million grant for early childhood services. SARRC is a Phoenix nonprofit focused on autism research, education and resources. SAARC will allocate…
Shortliffe named top executive of biomedical informatics group
October 03, 2008
[Source: The Arizona Republic, Ken Alltucker] – Edward “Ted” Shortliffe, the former dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, has been named the top executive of a national biomedical informatics group. As president and chief executive officer of…
Cuts concern UA biotech guru Cusanovich
October 03, 2008
[Source: Dan Sullivan, Arizona Daily Star] – The summer between his freshman and sophomore years in college, Mike Cusanovich worked at a chemical company “making things that went boom and then making them go boom.” One day that summer, he…
