Bioscience
Building Arizona as a global center for research and commercialization in the biosciences and a leader in such areas as precision medicine.
Bioscience in Arizona
The Flinn Foundation supports the biosciences in Arizona through research grants and stewardship of Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap, released in 2002 and guiding the growth and development of the state’s bioscience sector through 2025.
The Roadmap’s tagline, “Advancing the Biosciences and Improving Health Outcomes” recognizes the broad spectrum of the biosciences, including research, academia, and product commercialization, as well as the central role of health care within the bioscience sector.
Flinn-Brown Fellow and Flinn Scholar Sarah Coles advocates for today’s patients and tomorrow’s doctors
Dr. Sarah Coles was one of the first 24 medical students admitted to the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix.
And her commitment to the city’s first medical school has never gone away.
Coles, a Flinn-Brown Fellow, is a physician, educator, curriculum developer, policy expert, a member of state and national boards, and overall advocate for patient health.
Her career today is based one mile south of North High School in central Phoenix, where Coles was selected as a Flinn Scholar in 2002 and chose to attend the University of Arizona—sparking a lifelong commitment to the health of the state. [Read more]
Flinn Foundation grants push research on cancer, surgery, diabetes into clinical practice
Arizona’s leading research institutions—universities, independent institutes, and research hospitals—are collaborating on bioscience projects to advance health care through a Flinn Foundation grants program designed to translate innovations and discoveries into patient care more quickly.
The eight grants, valued at $100,000 each, will fund research between basic and clinical researchers at Arizona’s three public universities, HonorHealth Research Institute, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center and Barrow Neurological Institute, and the Translational Genomics Research Institute, as well as external partners that range from Mayo Clinic Arizona to Microsoft to Los Alamos National Laboratory. [Read more]
New grants fuel ASU bioscience research
Four faculty members from Arizona State University received 2019 Flinn Foundation Seed Grants to Promote Translational Research awards to further their bioscience research.
The projects will work to develop a material that will help heal rotator cuff tears; create technology to map the brain’s cellular activity during opioid addiction; find genetic variants related to Type 2 diabetes in underrepresented populations; and nanoengineer cardiac tissue to fix damage caused by a heart attack. [Read more]
Arizona universities use TRIF money to expand research, build facilities, launch startups
The Technology and Research Initiative Fund, approved by Arizona voters nearly 20 years ago, has enabled Arizona’s three public universities to build new cutting-edge research facilities and attract world-renowned scientists to the state, increase research grants and other external funding, commercialize new technology and launch startups, and provide research opportunities for college students.
Since its inception as part of Proposition 301, TRIF has raised more than $1 billion for Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Arizona. [Read more]
New Arizona bioscience data coming in 2020
The progress of Arizona’s bioscience sector is tracked by performance data on key metrics every other year. The next data report will be released in April.
The most recent data shows bioscience job growth in Arizona has outpaced other sectors since the launch of Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap in 2002, with annual wages higher than the state’s private-sector average. In addition, university bioscience tech transfer is showing steady gains, with 33 bioscience startups, 119 patents issued and 131 licenses in 2016 and 2017, a 57 percent increase in spinouts over the previous two-year span. [Read more]
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Bradley W. Halvorsen
Executive Vice President
Mary O’Reilly, Ph.D.
Vice President, Bioscience Research Programs
Stella Galaviz
Senior Program Manager
Juliet Gomez
Program Manager
Julie Anderson
Bioscience & Arts Program Coordinator