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
English, Algebra, Phys Ed…and Biotech
November 18, 2007
[Source: G. Pascal Zachary, New York Times] — More than a decade ago, after George Cachianes, a former researcher at Genentech, decided to become a teacher, he started a biotechnology course at Lincoln High School in San Francisco. He saw…
US math/science students perform well against counterparts in foreign countries, but Asian countries remain best performers
November 15, 2007
[Source: Finfacts Team] — Students in most US states are performing as well as or better than most students in foreign countries in math and science, but the highest achieving states are still significantly below the highest achieving countries, according…
Arizona Cancer Center receives $12 million SPORE grant to fight GI cancers
November 15, 2007
[Source: Donna Breckenridge, Arizona Cancer Center] — The Arizona Cancer Center
Leading bioengineer named to Biodesign Institute advisory board
November 13, 2007
[Source: Julie Kurth, ASU] — The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University has named biological engineer Drew Endy, Ph.D., to its advisory board. Endy is an assistant professor in the biological engineering department at MIT, where he co-founded the Synthetic…
Arizona Cancer Center physician to receive APOS award
November 13, 2007
[Source: Donna Breckenridge, Arizona Cancer Center] — Karen Weihs, MD, medical director of the Psychosocial Oncology Program for the Arizona Cancer Center and professor of psychiatry for The University of Arizona College of Medicine, has been awarded the 2008 American…
Coalition joins diabetes battle
November 13, 2007
[Source: Joe Caspermeyer, Biodesign Institute] — A new team of researchers from ASU and the University of Arizona is taking aim at the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States: adult-onset, or type 2, diabetes. The coalition
ASU launches renewable biofuel research initiative with BP and SFAz
November 13, 2007
[Source: PRNewswire] — Arizona State University has announced a significant research partnership with energy company BP and Science Foundation Arizona (SFAz) to develop a renewable source of biofuel. The research effort focuses on using a specially optimized photosynthetic bacterium to…
