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
UA Regents Professor and geneticist charts course for BIO5
February 23, 2005
This past fall Vicki Chandler, the newly appointed director of the Institute for Biomedical Science and Biotechnology (IBSB) at the University of Arizona, rescued the up-and-coming research center from its own cumbersome name and rechristened it BIO5, a decidedly catchier…
UA, IBM combine efforts to streamline data storage
February 22, 2005
Through a new grant, the University of Arizona has paired up with IBM to look for innovative ways to store biosciences data collected in university laboratories.
AZ Bio Expo launches awards dinner, seeks nominees
February 22, 2005
The upcoming Arizona Bio Expo 2005 will recognize the contributions of intrepid biotech researchers and entrepreneurs when attendees gather at the inaugural Biotech Awards dinner and Excellence in Bioindustry ceremony.
Artificial heart, patient get top billing on national magazine
February 18, 2005
One of Arizona's star medical devices got top billing last month when Bill Wohl, who owes his life to the CardioWest artificial heart in Tucson, was featured on the cover of LIFE magazine.
Arizona biotech draws attention of ‘NY Times’
February 05, 2005
Arizona's efforts to become a regional force in biotechnology got national press coverage in a recent edition of the New York Times. The article, "Phoenix moves to put itself on biotechnology map," in the technology section of the national daily,…
Ventana, bioscience companies get state training grants
February 02, 2005
Biomedical device manufacturer Ventana Medical Systems recently received nearly half a million dollars in grant money from the Arizona Job Training Program to train 400 of its Oro Valley employees. The program, run by the Arizona Department of Commerce, dispensed…
Co-chairs combine legal savvy, leadership to move tech council forward
January 14, 2005
The governor's choice to pair a distinguished transactional lawyer with the CEO of an international high-tech company to captain her Council on Innovation and Technology this year symbolizes the collaborative and cross-disciplinary spirit with which co-chairs Bill Hardin and Steve…
