Category Archive for "Bioscience" |

Biozona Weekly: Arizona Biomedical Corridor a positive for state; Science Foundation Arizona makes impact; ASU researching nicotine vaccine

Top bioscience news, July 3-16, 2013: Arizona Biomedical Corridor a positive for state; Science Foundation Arizona makes impact; ASU researching nicotine vaccine

Biozona Weekly: Land bid made for biomedical corridor; Funding raised for new algae facility; Mayo’s proton-beam building reaches milestone

Top bioscience news, June 26-July 10, 2013: Land bid made for biomedical corridor; Funding raised for new algae facility; Mayo's proton-beam building reaches milestone

UA selected for competitive nationwide STEM initiative

The University of Arizona is one of only eight institutions in the nation to be selected and funded under a major, nationwide initiative designed to greatly enhance science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.

Two bio firms among ACA Innovation Challenge winners

The Arizona Commerce Authority announced the six winners of its Spring 2013 Arizona Innovation Challenge at the inaugural Innovation Arizona summit in Tempe, including two bioscience companies that will receive $250,000 each to help grow their business.

Ventana, TGen reach agreement to develop markers to treat cancer

Tucson-based Ventana Medical Systems Inc. and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in Phoenix will work together to discover and develop diagnostic markers for treating cancer, starting with pancreatic cancer.

St. Joseph

From: St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, KTAR Doctors at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix have performed a “lung-in-a-box” transplant, the first in Arizona to do so at one of five hospitals in the country doing clinical trials on the machine. Read More: Phoenix hospital performs rare ‘lung in box’ transplant St. Joseph’s Hospital performs […]

C-Path names research group executive director

From: Arizona Daily Star John-Michael Sauer joined the Critical Path Institute as executive director of the Predictive Safety Testing Consortium, C-Path’s longest-standing research group. Read More: Sauer executive director at C-Path

UA names new VP for health sciences

From: UA News Joe G. N. “Skip” Garcia, M.D., an internationally noted physician-scientist, health administrator, scholar, educator and elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, has been appointed senior vice president for health sciences at the University of Arizona, starting Sept. 1. Read More: Dr. Joe G.N. ‘Skip’ Garcia appointed UA […]

Biozona Weekly: Ventana, TGen team up to fight cancer; Cancer-gene test likely to be more accessible; Six Innovation Challenge winners announced

Top bioscience news, June 7-25, 2013: Ventana, TGen team up to fight cancer; Cancer-gene test likely to be more accessible; Six Innovation Challenge winners announced

Foundations donate to build Tucson STEM center

From: Salpointe Catholic High School The Steele Foundation and Thomas R. Brown Family Foundations have made a combined $1.5 million gift to Salpointe Catholic High School in support of the Tucson school’s new STEM facility, which is set to open during the 2014-2015 school year. Read More: Steele Foundation, Brown Foundation gifts total $1.5M in […]