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
Crow and Poste christen first Biodesign building
December 20, 2004
The first facility of the Biodesign Institute at ASU was christened last week in a ceremony marked by bravado, collaboration, and cautionary tales about the future of public health and biomedicine.
Flinn Foundation adds two board members
December 13, 2004
The Flinn Foundation, a private grantmaking philanthropy, has elected two new directors to its governing board: Linda J. Blessing, retired executive director of the Arizona Board of Regents, and Drew M. Brown, managing director and partner of DMB Associates. The…
UA med-tech program shut down by Regents
December 01, 2004
In a 5-4 vote, the Arizona Board of Regents approved closing the doors on the University of Arizona's Medical Technology program
Vaccinologist follows inner compass to right place at right time
November 30, 2004
Few scientists have the opportunity to occupy intellectual ground zero of a paradigm shift, but vaccinologist Roy Curtiss, for whom ASU recently put up $3.8 million to lure to its Biodesign Institute, seems to have a knack for being the…
ASU biophysicist gets grant to accelerate gene-mapping
November 29, 2004
Bolstered by a new grant from the National Institutes of Health, ASU biophysicist Stuart Lindsay aims to make human-genome sequencing quick and affordable—taking mere hours and costing less than $1,000. The initial sequencing, completed in 2002, required 11 years and…
Flinn arts funding to focus on local collaboration
November 15, 2004
The Flinn Foundation has entered a new era of support for the arts by refocusing its resources on a regional effort launched in September 2004 to develop arts and culture in Maricopa County as a key component of the knowledge-based…
Scholars converse with Pulitzer Prize-winner
November 15, 2004
Acclaimed science writer Jonathan Weiner visited Phoenix in October 2004 as the featured guest at the first of several discussions this school year about medicine and society for Flinn Scholars and guests of the Arizona Consortium for Medicine, Society and…
