Bioscience

NIH’s $42M in EUREKA Awards Backs ‘Omics, Biomedical Resarch

[Source: By a GenomeWeb staff reporter , GenomeWeb News] – Nearly 40 biomedical and biotech researchers have been awarded a total of roughly $42 million under the National Institutes of Health

Bioscience

Arizona Public University Board Hopes To Double Research Spending by 2020

[Source: Alex Philippidis , BioRegion News] – The board that oversees Arizona

Bioscience

Carondelet Institute moves neurosurgery to new heights here

[Source: Ed Egger, Inside Tucson Business] – Several hundred patients who have needed to leave Tucson for complex neurological care should not have to do that starting early next year when Carondelet Health Network

Bioscience

Banner researchers part of Alzheimer’s study

[Source: East Valley Tribune, Mary K. Reinhart] – Arizona researchers are part of a nationwide study involving a new drug that could halt the progression of Alzheimer’s disease by preventing plaque from forming in the brain. Scientists at Banner Alzheimer’s Institute in Phoenix and Banner’s newly acquired Sun Health Research Institute in Sun City are […]

Bioscience

New clues found to treat brain cancer

[Source: The Arizona Republic, Ken Alltucker] – A massive scan of tumor samples from a Phoenix lab has revealed new genetic clues about an aggressive form of brain cancer, which could open the door to new treatments and explain why some patients don’t respond to a common chemotherapy drug. The scientific findings, revealed Thursday, are […]

Bioscience

Improved Statistical Tool To Rank Sickest Patients Waiting For Liver Transplants

[Source: ScienceDaily] – Mayo Clinic researchers have developed an improved statistical model that could help ensure that the sickest patients receive liver transplants first. Researchers found that including serum sodium concentration in the statistical model now used could reduce by 7 percent the number of patients (as many as 50 people) who die each year […]

Bioscience

South Mountain C.C. receives $290,000 bioscience grant

[Source: Media Newswire] — The third time is a charm for area students — just as charming and exciting, that is, as the first two times that the U.S. Department of Agriculture granted awards to South Mountain Community College for Agriculture and Bioscience Education. A $290,000 Expanding Undergraduate Bioscience Engagement Track (eUBET) grant from the […]

Bioscience

Northern AZ business partners will help expose students to new science, tech curriculum

[Source: Arizona Daily Sun, via Acquire Media NewsEdge] — A handsome flower blooms atop a solid stem. That’s the kind of image Flagstaff Unified School District Superintendent Kevin Brown has in mind as he begins to outline a strategic plan for the district’s emerging Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, or STEM, initiative. A retreat in […]

Bioscience

Pima County’s new technical-education district is gaining students–but little community involvement

[Source: Dave Devine, Tucson Weekly] — Established by Pima County voters only two years ago, the Joint Technological Education District (JTED) already has something in common with more traditional school districts: Hardly anyone wants to serve on its school board. At the same time, enrollment in JTED classes has blossomed. There were approximately 12,700 high […]

Bioscience

Banner completes acquisition of Sun Health

[Source: Ken Alltucker , The Arizona Republic] – Banner Health this week completed its $316 million purchase of Sun Health Corp. and immediately swapped out the management teams and changed the names of Sun Health’s two hospitals located in the Sun City area. Long-time fixtures in the Sun City and Sun City West communities, the […]