Improving the quality of life in Arizona to benefit future generations.
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 Sanghi are endeavoring to grow Arizona's technology economy.
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 medical school.
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 firms.
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.
The Flinn Foundation, a private grantmaking philanthropy, has elected two new directors to its governing board: Linda J. Blessing, retired executive director of the Arizona Board of Regents, and Drew M. Brown, managing director and partner of DMB Associates. The additions broaden the board to 11 members.
In a 5-4 vote, the Arizona Board of Regents approved closing the doors on the University of Arizona's Medical Technology program
Few scientists have the opportunity to occupy intellectual ground zero of a paradigm shift, but vaccinologist Roy Curtiss, for whom ASU recently put up $3.8 million to lure to its Biodesign Institute, seems to have a knack for being the right person in the right place at the right time. Today, with a present influenza vaccine shortage and a projected pandemic just around the corner, he could just be the man of the hour.
Bolstered by a new grant from the National Institutes of Health, ASU biophysicist Stuart Lindsay aims to make human-genome sequencing quick and affordable—taking mere hours and costing less than $1,000. The initial sequencing, completed in 2002, required 11 years and $1 billion.
The Flinn Foundation has entered a new era of support for the arts by refocusing its resources on a regional effort launched in September 2004 to develop arts and culture in Maricopa County as a key component of the knowledge-based economy.
Acclaimed science writer Jonathan Weiner visited Phoenix in October 2004 as the featured guest at the first of several discussions this school year about medicine and society for Flinn Scholars and guests of the Arizona Consortium for Medicine, Society and Values.
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