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
TGen Researchers Publish New Multiplexed Sequence Approach
September 23, 2008
[Source: By a GenomeWeb staff reporter , GenomeWeb News] – In a paper appearing online in Nature Methods this weekend, a team of researchers from the Translational Genomics Research Institute described a new multiplexed, targeted re-sequencing strategy for assessing regions…
New dawn for Aimee after brain surgery
September 23, 2008
[Source: Daily Mercury] – AS the sun rises over Phoenix in Arizona, Aimee Anderson awakes to a new day she never thought she would see. The young mum is on the slow road to recovery after a gruelling eight-hour operation…
Thomas W. Peterson to Become NSF Assistant Director for Engineering
September 23, 2008
[Source: National Science Foundation] – Thomas W. Peterson, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Arizona, has been selected as the new assistant director of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Engineering. Peterson has served as…
A National Science Foundation grant will allow the UA to establish a research center.
September 23, 2008
[Source: University Communications] – The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $18.5 million grant to establish an engineering research center based at The University of Arizona. The center, or ERC, will focus on removing one of the last bottlenecks…
AZBio Announces 2008 Award Winners
September 23, 2008
[Source: BUSINESS WIRE] – At its annual dinner last night in Tempe, AZ, attended by more than 400 people, the Arizona BioIndustry Association (AZBio) presented six awards, recognizing the best in Arizona bioscience. The dinner, hosted in partnership with Arizona…
SFAz Graduate Research Fellows program grows to nation’s largest
September 22, 2008
As a struggling economy presents new challenges for university budgets, and researchers wonder how federal funding for their investigations will change under the next Congress, one group of young scientists has to be feeling fortunate. They are the 100 graduate…
St. Joseph’s Hospital and InNexus Biotechnology Enter Collaborative Partnership
September 19, 2008
[Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall] – St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, part of Catholic HealthcareWest, one of the largest healthcare systems in the West with 42 hospitalsin Arizona, California and Nevada and InNexus Biotechnology Inc., a drugdevelopment company commercializing the next generation…
