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
Forensic Breakthrough Stirs NIH to Close GWAS Data from Public View
August 29, 2008
[GenomeWeb News]
TGen Scientists Uncover New Field of Research that could Help Police in Crime Scene Forensics
August 29, 2008
[Source: TGen] – A team of investigators led by scientists at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have found a way to identify possible suspects at crime scenes using only a small amount of DNA, even if it is mixed…
Despite rocky start, medical school presses on
August 27, 2008
[Source: Ken Alltucker, The Arizona Republic ] – Arizona leaders see the new University of Arizona medical-school campus in downtown Phoenix as an anchor of a biomedical hub that will train more doctors, foster cutting-edge research and spur the state’s…
Finding answers in MRIs
August 26, 2008
[Source: BY WILLIAM ROLLER, SUN STAFF WRITER] – The medical research lab may lack the drama of the Emmy Award-winning “ER” TV show but a Yuma pre-med student applied her passion for science to search for possible discoveries that can…
Take chances
August 26, 2008
[Source: Norma Coile, AZStarsNet.com] – Vicki L. Chandler, 57, helps cure cancer and other diseases, feeds the hungry in the world and could bring a Nobel Prize to the University of Arizona some day. She is the director of The…
Alzheimer’s research earns Joseph Rogers Lifetime Achievement Award at Health Care Heroes breakfast
August 26, 2008
[Phoenix Business Journal] – Joseph Rogers, president and senior scientist at Sun Health Research Institute, received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2008 Health Care Heroes Awards breakfast presented by the Phoenix Business Journal Thursday. Rogers has been a research…
SPIE Announces Newly-Elected 2009 Officers and Directors
August 26, 2008
Source: MARKET WIRE via COMTEX] – SPIE 2008 President Kevin Harding announced the recent election results at the Annual General Meeting of the Society, 12 August, 2008, in San Diego, California. Terms begin January 1, 2009. The 2009 Society Officers:…
