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
Pulitzer-winner Jonathan Weiner to address bioethics at Phoenix lecture
October 20, 2004
Having made a career of tracking scientists everywhere from the Galapagos Island to the borderlands of the medical frontier, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jonathan Weiner's next destination is Phoenix, where he will be the inaugural featured speaker of the new Arizona…
UA bioengineer blazes entrepreneurial trail
October 20, 2004
Stuart Williams--part inventor, part pioneer--has become both a fixture and a frontiersman in the changing Arizona biosciences landscape. A lab scientist by training, Williams is also an entrepreneur with over 50 innovations and a dozen patents to his name. We…
Regents approve health-science measures, briefed on medical school
October 11, 2004
At its meeting in late September, the Arizona Board of Regents approved funding and development plans for biosciences projects at both Arizona State University and the University of Arizona.
Poste named R&D’s Scientist of the Year
October 08, 2004
George Poste, director of the Biodesign Institute at ASU, was named 2004 Scientist of the Year by R&D magazine, which honors a scientist annually for his or her career accomplishments. Poste's career spans 38 years to date and includes such…
VC conference gives way to angels
October 08, 2004
The Arizona Venture Capital Conference is gone, but there will be something new in its place: the Arizona Angel Investment Conference.
Biosciences central to draft blueprint for downtown Phoenix makeover
September 30, 2004
The City of Phoenix's new vision for its downtown, presented in draft form to the public last week, features biomedical research as a cornerstone element—more so, in fact, than in previous plans.
Phoenix City Council approves P-Bio accelerator plan
September 30, 2004
Phoenix Biotechnology Accelerator, LLC, or 'P-Bio,' got the go-ahead and a lease agreement from the Phoenix City Council last week for the first phase of development of its downtown incubator, which will be located on the northeast corner of 7th…
