Bioscience

Biozona Weekly: Banner Alzheimer

Top bioscience news, July 7-17, 2014: Banner Alzheimer’s Institute to test new drugs; Theranos bringing new jobs to SkySong; AZ Fast Grants awarded to 18 companies

Banner Alzheimer

Banner Alzheimer’s Institute in Phoenix will team with Novartis, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, to test two experimental drugs that aim to fend off Alzheimer's disease in older adults who are at high risk but have not yet shown memory or thinking problems.

Biozona Weekly: Banner/UA deal; STEM job vacancies; Solution to dying bee epidemic

Top bioscience news, June 27-July 7, 2014: Banner/UA deal; STEM job vacancies; Solution to dying bee epidemic

Banner Health to acquire UA Health Network, partner with UA colleges of Medicine

Banner Health is prepared to invest nearly $1 billion as part of an agreement to purchase the private University of Arizona Health Network including its two Tucson-based teaching hospitals, partner with the UA colleges of Medicine in both Tucson and Phoenix, and invest substantial sums in clinical and transitional research. 

Biozona Weekly: UA, Banner Health partnership; Ulthera acquisition; New AZBio conference

Top bioscience news, June 19-27, 2014: UA Health Network, Banner Health partnership endorsed; Ulthera acquired by German company for $600M; AZBio to host regional life science capital conference

Biozona Weekly: National Science Board; ACA finalists; Tech Launch Arizona

Top bioscience news, June 12-18, 2014: ASU’s Sethuraman Panchanathan appointed to National Science Board; Arizona Commerce Authority names Innovation Challenge finalists; Tech Launch Arizona lifts startups

President Obama appoints ASU’s Panchanathan to National Science Board

 From: ASU News Sethuraman “Panch” Panchanathan, Arizona State University’s senior vice president of the Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development and the leader of ASU’s research, entrepreneurship and economic development efforts, has been appointed to the U.S. National Science Board by President Barack Obama. Read More: Obama names ASU’s Sethuraman Panchanathan to National Science Board President […]

Biozona Weekly: Biosciences building approved; New cancer center director; TGen funding

Top bioscience news, June 6-11, 2014: Biosciences research building in Phoenix approved; UA names new cancer center director; TGen receives funding from foundation, fundraiser

UA Cancer Center names director

Dr. Andrew S. Kraft, a nationally recognized prostate cancer physician-scientist and cancer center administrator, has been named the Sydney E. Salmon endowed chair and director of the University of Arizona Cancer Center in Tucson.

Arizona Board of Regents approves UA research building in downtown Phoenix

The Arizona Board of Regents on June 6 approved plans to build a 10-story, $136 million University of Arizona research building on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus in downtown Phoenix.

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