Biomedical device manufacturer Ventana Medical Systems recently received nearly half a million dollars in grant money from the Arizona Job Training Program to train 400 of its Oro Valley employees. The program, run by the Arizona Department of Commerce, dispensed…

The governor's choice to pair a distinguished transactional lawyer with the CEO of an international high-tech company to captain her Council on Innovation and Technology this year symbolizes the collaborative and cross-disciplinary spirit with which co-chairs Bill Hardin and Steve…

In her annual State of the State address yesterday, Gov. Janet Napolitano highlighted Arizona's continued efforts to move toward a high-wage knowledge economy and touched on broad plans for paying for the new Phoenix extension of the University of Arizona…

The board of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council unanimously approved Barry Broome as its next CEO and president, effective Feb. 1. Broome's five years as chief executive of Southwest Michigan First in the Kalamazoo area involved considerable work with bioscience…

The first facility of the Biodesign Institute at ASU was christened last week in a ceremony marked by bravado, collaboration, and cautionary tales about the future of public health and biomedicine.

The Flinn Foundation, a private grantmaking philanthropy, has elected two new directors to its governing board: Linda J. Blessing, retired executive director of the Arizona Board of Regents, and Drew M. Brown, managing director and partner of DMB Associates. The…

In a 5-4 vote, the Arizona Board of Regents approved closing the doors on the University of Arizona's Medical Technology program