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: Ivy Brain Tumor Center to build headquarters; HonorHealth to require COVID-19 vaccine; Arizona Innovation Challenge application opens
July 29, 2021
Brain tumor research HQ to be built on St. Joseph’s Phoenix campus / Phoenix Business Journal The Ivy Brain Tumor Center at Barrow Neurological Institute plans to build its 75,000-square-foot global headquarters on the campus of St. Joseph’s Hospital and…
Arizona Bioscience News: COVID-19 surging, delta dominant in Arizona; CATS Tonometer cleared to market device; TGen study looks at reaction times
July 22, 2021
COVID-19 is surging again in Arizona, ASU disease expert says / Arizona Republic Arizona is in another surge of COVID-19, Biodesign Institute executive director Dr. Joshua LaBaer says, but most likely will look different from the previous surges and probably…
Arizona Bioscience News: Bio campus changing downtown Phoenix; UArizona’s Type 2 diabetes study; Valley fever cases rise
July 15, 2021
Here’s how bioscience is changing Downtown Phoenix landscape / AZ Big Media Phoenix continues to attract businesses in the health care and bioscience sector, and since 2004, has been the home of the downtown Phoenix Biomedical Campus. New University of…
Flinn Foundation opens application for research grants program
July 13, 2021
The Flinn Foundation has opened the application for the next round of the Seed Grants to Promote Translational Research Program, which will fund up to 10 research teams focused on advancing new products or services to improve patient care. The awardees…
Arizona Bioscience News: Legislature passes angel investment credit; Walmart Health acquires MeMD; UA Cancer Center’s mRNA vaccine trial
July 08, 2021
‘There is nothing else to do’: Get vaccinated to avert delta variant, Arizona health officials say / Arizona Republic COVID-19 vaccination rates in Arizona lag the U.S. average, case numbers are up and the state’s health director says more shots…
Arizona Bioscience News: Anuncia relocates to Scottsdale; ASU in top 10 for patents; Delta variant causing more concern
July 01, 2021
Unvaccinated people ‘highly at risk’: Concern grows over delta variant of COVID-19 / Arizona Republic Arizona’s public health experts are increasingly worried about the delta variant, a coronavirus strain that’s likely more contagious and is gaining momentum in unvaccinated people.…
Arizona Bioscience News: Delta variant; TGen finds animals with COVID-19; Tempe wastewater testing
June 24, 2021
‘This pandemic is still very real in my world’: Arizonans are still dying of COVID-19 / Arizona Republic Despite vaccinations increasing and hospitalizations, infections and deaths from COVID-19 declining in the state, Arizonans are still getting sick and dying from…
