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
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…
Governor, key legislator put tech companies, medical school on ’05 agenda
January 11, 2005
In her annual State of the State address yesterday, Gov. Janet Napolitano highlighted Arizona's continued efforts to move toward a high-wage knowledge economy and touched on broad plans for paying for the new Phoenix extension of the University of Arizona…
Michigan economic developer takes reins at GPEC
December 20, 2004
The board of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council unanimously approved Barry Broome as its next CEO and president, effective Feb. 1. Broome's five years as chief executive of Southwest Michigan First in the Kalamazoo area involved considerable work with bioscience…
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.
