Bioscience

Scottsdale Congressman J.D. Hayworth is preparing a proposal to create 10 small-business incubators nationally, including one in Arizona, according to the Business Journal.

Bioscience

Scottsdale and Arizona State University today announced plans to purchase the long-contested Los Arcos Mall site from developer Steve Ellman for $41.5 million. The locale will serve as the future home of the ASU Scottsdale Center for New Technology and Innovation, a research and entrepreneurship center that officials hope will attract world- class talent and revitalize the area.

Bioscience

Mayo Clinic surgical oncologist Barbara Pockaj attacks cancer on multiple fronts. In her surgical battle against patients' tumors, Pockaj feels she is curing cancer every day. But when she doffs scrubs and dons a lab coat as part of an extensive Arizona collaboration on melanoma, her part in the war is raised to an entirely new level.

Bioscience

With research facilities underway at Arizona's universities and in downtown Phoenix, attention is turning to the researchers who will ultimately bring these buildings to life.

Bioscience

A group of economic developers from the Netherlands spent the week meeting with Arizona scientists and business leaders to forge relationships for potential future partnerships.

Bioscience

Members of the media and communications officials representing government, academia, technology councils and economic development groups were in attendance yesterday as expert presenters brought them up to date on past and proposed bio developments in the state.

Bioscience

Universities traditionally maintain a stark legal and cultural separation from the business world. But such a separation can stand in the way of successfully commercializing research, a blow to both the economy and a region's capacity to attract high-tech businesses. Learn how Arizona's universities are working to bridge that gap, and the vital role that an amendment on the November ballot will play in determining the fate of Arizona's knowledge economy.

Bioscience

New publications that spotlight Arizona's biotech and technology industries were introduced last week by Business Journal and Arizona Technology Council.

Bioscience

A University of Arizona program that seeks to increase collaboration among life sciences faculty and improve technology commercialization efforts has pared its list of possible directors to four.

Bioscience

Arizona bioscience efforts have been highlighted in the Scotland-based Sunday Herald. The article provides a brief overview of the past two years' efforts to transform Arizona into a bioscience and biotechnology hub, including the establishment of two keystone organizations, International Genomics Consortium and the Translational Genomics Research Institute.