A report issued by the Office of Economic Affairs at Arizona State University recommends conversion of vacant "cleanrooms" previously used by the semiconductor industry to help resolve the metro Phoenix area's shortage of wet-lab space, a critical need in the…

Gov. Janet Napolitano signed an executive order yesterday to create a 10-member Arizona Commission on Medical Education and Research, whose mission is to develop a plan to implement the expansion of the University of Arizona College of Medicine at the…

Having made a career of tracking scientists everywhere from the Galapagos Island to the borderlands of the medical frontier, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jonathan Weiner's next destination is Phoenix, where he will be the inaugural featured speaker of the new Arizona…

Stuart Williams--part inventor, part pioneer--has become both a fixture and a frontiersman in the changing Arizona biosciences landscape. A lab scientist by training, Williams is also an entrepreneur with over 50 innovations and a dozen patents to his name. We…

At its meeting in late September, the Arizona Board of Regents approved funding and development plans for biosciences projects at both Arizona State University and the University of Arizona.

George Poste, director of the Biodesign Institute at ASU, was named 2004 Scientist of the Year by R&D magazine, which honors a scientist annually for his or her career accomplishments. Poste's career spans 38 years to date and includes such…

The Arizona Venture Capital Conference is gone, but there will be something new in its place: the Arizona Angel Investment Conference.