Raised in a small logging town outside Vancouver, Canada, Arizona State University law professor Gary Marchant was one of the few students in his high school class to go to college and he just kept going, receiving his Ph.D. in…

To herald a broadened mission and new focus in the Arizona research community, the organization formerly known as the Arizona Disease Control Research Commission is becoming the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission.

This spring, the Arizona Board of Regents approved the creation of the new Strategic Alliance for Bioscience Research and Education, or SABRE, at Northern Arizona University. The alliance, funding under the state's Technology and Research Initiative, replaces the former Institute…

Pima Community College and local employers are the recent recipients of a $276,393 grant from the U.S. Employment and Training Administration (ETA) to help bolster southern Arizona's bioscience workforce.

Several local companies have given Arizona's growing bioscience sector a shove in the right direction with some lucrative federal grant dollars and leadership roles on national research projects. Even as the recent Meds and Eds report warned of relying solely…

Two of southern Arizona's bioscience rising stars are getting new additions to their front office this summer. Tucson entrepreneur Larry Aldrich has been named chief operating officer of the new drug development institute, C-Path, and 36-year-old Shaun Kirkpatrick is taking…

[Source: Alex Pickett, Independent Newspapers] — A new biotechnology course will debut at Hamilton and Basha high schools this fall, giving students the opportunity to learn skills that will be crucial in filling jobs in the area