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
U.S. DOE awards $22.1M for 41 grants to recruit, prepare, and support new teachers
June 29, 2007
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $22.1 million for 41 grants through the Transition to Teaching program to increase the pool of qualified teachers in high-need schools in high-need districts by recruiting non-traditional teacher candidates, preparing them through alternative…
Med school, SFAz highlighted in state budget
June 28, 2007
$10.6 billion budget signed by Governor Janet Napolitano on Monday includes a handful of bioscience-related line items, most notably major funding for the Phoenix Biomedical Campus and Science Foundation Arizona.
Biomarkers consortium launches website to accept proposals, provide funding updates
June 27, 2007
[Source: GenomeWeb staff reporter] — The Biomarkers Consortium today said it has launched a website that can be used to submit biomarker project concepts, to obtain funding information, as a contact point, and for updated news about the consortium
Former surgeon trades scrubs to build Mayo’s future
June 27, 2007
Several years ago, Dr. Victor Trastek gave up a rewarding surgical career to take the reins of Mayo Clinic in Arizona. For a passionate physician like Trastek, the transition to life outside the operating room was not an easy one.…
Arizona high school students win national engineering design competition
June 27, 2007
[Source: Abra McAndrew, University Communications, University of Arizona] — An Arizona team representing Tucson High School earned first place in the national Mathematics, Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) Engineering Design competition which took place in Maryland on June 22-24. The Tucson…
University of Arizona BIO5 researchers feel the spring in RNA
June 27, 2007
[Source: Deborah Dawn, Bio5 Institute] — Researchers from the BIO5 Institute at The University of Arizona have used optical tweezers technology to observe the unraveling of molecular sized helices within individual molecules of messenger RNA. This important class of RNA…
