News and Updates

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.  

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News and Updates

Arizona’s bio community gathers at annual expo

June 22, 2007

More than 220 people attended the 2007 Arizona Bio Expo earlier this week to hear presentations from state and national scientists and business leaders. The expo, an event of the Arizona BioIndustry Association, was held in downtown Phoenix in conjunction…


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UA, IBM to host science camp for Hispanics

June 21, 2007

[Source: Business Journal of Phoenix] — The University of Arizona in Tucson will be among hosts of SciTech 2020 math/science camps for Hispanic students this summer. The camps — open to incoming high school sophomores — are the first project…


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Luring girls to math, science

June 21, 2007

[Source: Andrea Rivera, Arizona Daily Star] — By introducing middle school girls to Web page design, robotics and lip-gloss ingredients, IBM is hoping to spark their interest in math and science. Thirty incoming seventh- and eighth-graders at Flowing Wells Junior…


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Leaders in Arizona biosciences honored at ABA awards dinner

June 21, 2007

Eight individuals and companies were honored for their efforts to advance Arizona


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Leaders in Arizona biosciences honored at ABA awards dinner

June 21, 2007

Eight individuals and companies were honored for their efforts to advance Arizona's emerging bioscience sector last night at the third-annual Excellence in Bioscience Awards Dinner in downtown Phoenix, hosted by the Arizona BioIndustry Association.


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Summer camps pick up a clue from TV, add ‘CSI’ themes to attract kids

June 20, 2007

[Source: Lisa Nicita, Arizona Republic] — Instead of learning a new cheer or building a campfire this summer, dozens of kids from Tempe to Glendale are dusting fingerprints and testing blood. Fake blood, but still blood to the kids. New…


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Scientific pioneer named to ASU Biodesign Institute advisory board

June 20, 2007

The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University recently named acclaimed cell biologist James E. Rothman, PhD, to its advisory board. Rothman is a professor of physiology and cellular biophysics at Columbia University, director and founder of Columbia


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