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
Science in the City helps students explore world in summer camp
June 19, 2007
[Source: Sadie Jo Smokey, Arizona Republic] — Three years ago the Phoenix Union High School District created Science in the City, a summer enrichment camp where students immerse themselves in science. The goal of the day camp, staffed by middle…
Link between obesity and enlarged heart discovered by UA researchers
June 18, 2007
New research from The University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center helps explain why excessive body weight increases the risk for heart disease. In the largest study of its kind, cardiologist M. Reza Movahed, MD, PhD, and research specialist Adolfo A.…
Statistics GIDP underway at UA
June 18, 2007
The long tradition of interdisciplinary collaboration at The University of Arizona has paved the way for the new Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (GIDP) in Statistics, according to BIO5 member Walter W. Piegorsch, PhD, a professor in the UA Mathematics Department and…
NHGRI Offers Access to Cancer Sequencing Data
June 15, 2007
Source: GenomeWeb staff reporter NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Human Genome Research Institute is granting access to datasets from cancer sequencing projects through open-access and controlled-access programs, NHGRI said yesterday. Researchers will be able to access controlled information…
UA receives 925K for new instrumentation
June 14, 2007
New funds received by The University of Arizona go towards the purchase of a hybrid quadrupole (or linear ion trap) Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer with high-throughput, high-resolution, and high-mass accuracy and equipped with electron capture dissociation and…
Three new first-in-class cancer therapies developed at UA
June 10, 2007
Researchers at The University of Arizona
