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: Venture Madness 2025; ASU construction projects; City of Hope Cancer Care; HonorHealth Peoria
April 10, 2025
Venture Madness 2025: Meet the startup pitch competition winners / Phoenix Business Journal Three startups took home cash prizes as winners of last week’s Venture Madness, Arizona’s longest-running pitch competition, including second-place HemaSense of Flagstaff. The early-stage company is developing a…
Arizona Bioscience News: Xcellerant Ventures; NAU “wearable robots”; Terraza Medical Village
April 03, 2025
Xcellerant Ventures, AVC to invest $7 million into health tech startups / Phoenix Business Journal (AZ Inno) Scottsdale-based Xcellerant Ventures has raised an additional $7 million in capital from Arizona Venture Capital Inc. and other limited partners to back between four and seven…
Arizona bioscience data to be revealed April 23
March 21, 2025
Heather Carter, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Health Choice CEO and chair of the Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap Steering Committee, will share new data from TEConomy Partners highlighting Arizona bioscience and hospital jobs, wages, federal grants, venture capital, university tech-transfer,…
Arizona Bioscience News: HonorHealth Research Institute; CAMI construction halts; XLR8 PBC
March 21, 2025
HonorHealth institute opens Bioscience Core lab / Phoenix Business Journal Scottsdale-based HonorHealth Research Institute opened its $7 million, 2,500-square-foot Center for Translational Science laboratory on the Phoenix Bioscience Core campus in downtown Phoenix within the 850 PBC building developed by Wexford…
Arizona Bioscience News: Flinn Entrepreneurship Program; ASU Medical School location; Wearable tech
March 13, 2025
2 Arizona bio startups earn $100K through Flinn entrepreneurship program / AZ Big Media Arizona bioscience companies Anuncia Medical and Macula Vision Systems have been selected from a competitive field of startups to receive funding support through the 2025 Flinn Foundation…
Arizona Bioscience News: Mayo Clinic plans to invest $1.9B; U of A strategic research investment; Anuncia Medical and Macula Vision Systems recieve funding
March 06, 2025
Mayo Clinic to invest nearly $2 billion in Valley hospital campus, hire thousands / Phoenix Business Journal Mayo Clinic plans to invest $1.9 billion and add 3,500 more jobs to its north Phoenix campus, adjacent to the Discovery Oasis biotech…
Two Arizona bio startups earn $100K through Flinn entrepreneurship program
March 06, 2025
Arizona bioscience companies Anuncia Medical and Macula Vision Systems have been selected from a competitive field of startups to receive funding support through the 2025 Flinn Foundation Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program. The companies receive $100,000 in non-dilutive funding support through the…
