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
Bioscience start-ups urged to showcase products at November investor conference
July 19, 2005
Bioscience and biotechnology related firms in start-up, early, or growth phases of development are encouraged to apply to present their business to an audience of over 100 investors, bankers, and money managers at the Arizona Angel Investment Conference.
Arizona prominence grows at BIO convention
July 06, 2005
Arizona's presence at the world's largest biotechnology convention continued its annual growth at the June meeting of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) in Philadelphia. The state commanded a more prominent, visible location in the exhibition hall than in past years,…
Geneticist lawyer welcomes new class of biotech law students to ASU
June 29, 2005
Raised in a small logging town outside Vancouver, Canada, Arizona State University law professor Gary Marchant was one of the few students in his high school class to go to college and he just kept going, receiving his Ph.D. in…
State research commission shifts mission, shortens name
June 22, 2005
To herald a broadened mission and new focus in the Arizona research community, the organization formerly known as the Arizona Disease Control Research Commission is becoming the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission.
Northern Arizona University forms new alliance for bioresearch and education
June 17, 2005
This spring, the Arizona Board of Regents approved the creation of the new Strategic Alliance for Bioscience Research and Education, or SABRE, at Northern Arizona University. The alliance, funding under the state's Technology and Research Initiative, replaces the former Institute…
Pima County receives federal bioscience job training grant
June 10, 2005
Pima Community College and local employers are the recent recipients of a $276,393 grant from the U.S. Employment and Training Administration (ETA) to help bolster southern Arizona's bioscience workforce.
Arizona companies net federal grants, must seek local sources
June 08, 2005
Several local companies have given Arizona's growing bioscience sector a shove in the right direction with some lucrative federal grant dollars and leadership roles on national research projects. Even as the recent Meds and Eds report warned of relying solely…
