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
$50M gift to ASU will fund dementia research, education
May 01, 2019
A $50 million gift from Charlene and J. Orin Edson to Arizona State University will be evenly split between the Biodesign Institute and the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation to support dementia research as well as education and…
Critical Path Institute names Joseph Scheeren new CEO
May 01, 2019
Joseph Scheeren, a global regulatory-affairs leader, began his new role as president and CEO of Tucson-based Critical Path Institute in April. Scheeren, who has worked for more than three decades in the pharmaceutical industry in the United States, China and…
Arizona Bioscience News: $10M to Biodesign’s X-ray laser lab; UA researcher to study copper as antibiotic; ASU finds MTT decreases autism symptoms
April 25, 2019
Phoenix attorney’s family donates $10M to help ASU build X-ray laser lab / Phoenix Business Journal The Beus Compact X-ray Free Electron Laser Lab at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute received a $10 million donation to help complete the first…
Arizona Bioscience News: UA could open vet school in 2020; Phoenix Children’s receives brain cancer research grant; Barrow seeks Alzheimer’s trial participants
April 18, 2019
University of Arizona trying to open the state’s first public veterinary school in Oro Valley / Arizona Republic Arizona students could have a public university option to study veterinary medicine as soon as next year, if the University of Arizona’s…
Arizona Bioscience News: AZ researchers lead CTE study; Banner-UMC Tucson nearly complete; MIHS to reopen in Maryvale
April 11, 2019
Brain scans on former NFL players detect abnormal proteins found in CTE / NBC News An experimental brain scan can now detect abnormal proteins in the brains of living former NFL players affected by chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to a…
Arizona Bioscience News: Arizona Republic partners with Flinn Foundation; Bioscience Roadmap events highlight ecosystem; ASU launches new accelerator
April 05, 2019
Innovative storytelling to drive Republic partnership with Flinn Foundation / Arizona Republic With support from the Flinn Foundation, The Arizona Republic is hiring a multimedia reporter and a digital developer to chronicle Arizona’s bioscience sector, tell the state’s story of…
Arizona’s robust bioscience ecosystem on display at statewide events
April 05, 2019
The Flinn Foundation hosted its three annual Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap Progress Report Update luncheons this week to dialogue about Arizona’s latest advancements in bioscience research and industry with leaders in Flagstaff, Tucson, and Phoenix. The Latest Progress of the Biosciences…
