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
Arizona bioscience data to be revealed April 23
March 21, 2025
Heather Carter, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Health Choice CEO and chair of the Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap Steering Committee, will share new data from TEConomy Partners highlighting Arizona bioscience and hospital jobs, wages, federal grants, venture capital, university tech-transfer,…
Arizona Bioscience News: HonorHealth Research Institute; CAMI construction halts; XLR8 PBC
March 21, 2025
HonorHealth institute opens Bioscience Core lab / Phoenix Business Journal Scottsdale-based HonorHealth Research Institute opened its $7 million, 2,500-square-foot Center for Translational Science laboratory on the Phoenix Bioscience Core campus in downtown Phoenix within the 850 PBC building developed by Wexford…
Arizona Bioscience News: Flinn Entrepreneurship Program; ASU Medical School location; Wearable tech
March 13, 2025
2 Arizona bio startups earn $100K through Flinn entrepreneurship program / AZ Big Media Arizona bioscience companies Anuncia Medical and Macula Vision Systems have been selected from a competitive field of startups to receive funding support through the 2025 Flinn Foundation…
Arizona Bioscience News: Mayo Clinic plans to invest $1.9B; U of A strategic research investment; Anuncia Medical and Macula Vision Systems recieve funding
March 06, 2025
Mayo Clinic to invest nearly $2 billion in Valley hospital campus, hire thousands / Phoenix Business Journal Mayo Clinic plans to invest $1.9 billion and add 3,500 more jobs to its north Phoenix campus, adjacent to the Discovery Oasis biotech…
Two Arizona bio startups earn $100K through Flinn entrepreneurship program
March 06, 2025
Arizona bioscience companies Anuncia Medical and Macula Vision Systems have been selected from a competitive field of startups to receive funding support through the 2025 Flinn Foundation Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program. The companies receive $100,000 in non-dilutive funding support through the…
Flinn conference brings together Arizona’s bioscience ecosystem
March 06, 2025
The March 6 Flinn Foundation Bio Capital Conference, “Managing Growth and VC Capital As You Scale,” brought together bioscience founders, investors, ecosystem partners, and service providers at the Creighton University Health Sciences Campus in Phoenix for a day of learning…
Arizona Bioscience News: Phoenix medical manufacturing growth; UA Health Sciences director; Arizona’s next measles outbreak
February 27, 2025
Medical manufacturing set to drive growth in Phoenix market / Phoenix Business Journal In the Phoenix market, major investments are being made to establish an ecosystem for manufacturing, research and development and innovation in health care, including Mayo Clinic’s Discovery…
