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 News: ASU medical school set for 2026; Banner opens outpatient heart surgery center; Payson earns rural health recognition
July 31, 2025
ASU’s new medical school is poised to open next year. When can students apply? / Arizona Republic ASU’s School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering is slated to open in 2026 as part of the state’s mission to bolster its health…
Arizona Bioscience News: Vitalyst Health leader Suzanne Pfister remembered; U of A studies asthma prevention; ASU explores bio-based semiconductors
July 24, 2025
Suzanne Pfister, Phoenix health foundation leader, remembered as 'true public servant’ / Arizona Republic Suzanne Pfister, a longtime public servant who for more than a decade led Vitalyst Health Foundation, a Phoenix-based nonprofit focused on improving Arizonans' health, died July 18. Pfister previously held a leadership…
Arizona Bioscience News: Roadmap launch set for September; Startups raise $531M; UA sleep apnea study; Navi Nurses expands care; Tucson tech tackles maternal health
July 17, 2025
Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap launch set for September / Flinn Foundation The new iteration of Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap is almost here. After a year of research, interviews, and focus groups, SRI International has submitted a final draft that is currently under review.…
Navi Nurses founder Jasmine Bhatti: Improving health care for patients — and nurses
July 15, 2025
By Joanna Yang Yowler, Ph.D.Flinn Foundation On the mainstage at the Flinn Foundation’s inaugural Bioscience Storytellers event, Jasmine Bhatti recounted her experience caregiving for her grandmother — and how it solidified a career in nursing. The founder and CEO of…
Arizona Bioscience News: Phoenix Children’s names new CEO; U of A launches AI in public health; Banner expands neuro care; Biosphere 2 evolves into living lab
July 10, 2025
Health care veteran to take helm at Phoenix Children's as Meyer retires after 23 years / Phoenix Business Journal Phoenix Children’s has named John Nickens IV, a pediatric health care veteran, as the hospital's new president and CEO. He will take…
Arizona Bioscience News: Phoenix bioscience ecosystem grows; Mayo adds lung transplants; Mesa firm up 600%; Paxauris debuts inflatable earplug; HonorHealth expands in Chandler
July 03, 2025
How Phoenix built a world-class bioscience ecosystem / Axios (Op-ed) A city of Phoenix article shows how the area has steadily built an ecosystem of world-class research, health care facilities and bioscience companies to attract talent and investment from across the…
Bio entrepreneur Tony Dietz draws on childhood experiences to create inflatable earplug
June 30, 2025
The founder of Phoenix-based Paxauris takes the Fluid™ Earplug to market By Brian PowellFlinn Foundation Tony Dietz has spent a lot of time in places that are not healthy for your ears: swimming in the ocean off the coast of…
