Bioscience

Improving a patient’s physical and mental health in primary care

A primary care physician may be accustomed after an appointment to guiding patients down the hall for a urine test or lab work. In recent years in Arizona and across the nation, physicians are also increasingly likely to find themselves introducing a patient to a licensed counselor or social worker in the office next door.

Learn more about the integration of behavioral health into a primary care practice in this article, written by the Flinn Foundation’s Brian Powell, which first appeared in the Fall 2022 issue of Arizona Physician magazine, a publication of the Maricopa County Medical Society. [Read more]

20 years of TGen: Using genomics for medical benefit

This year marks the 20^th anniversary of both the Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap and TGen, which through its cutting-edge patient treatment, ground-breaking research, and commercialization, has played a key role in enabling Arizona’s bioscience sector to perform today at historically high levels. 

Dr. Jeffrey Trent, Ph.D., TGen’s president and research director and previously the scientific director of the National Human Genomic Research Institute, talks about his vision to create such an organization—and to do so in his native Arizona. [Read more]