Live Blog: Arizona's Bioscience Roadmap
Welcome to the Flinn Foundation Bio Blog where you will receive the latest news throughout 2025 (and beyond) on the next iteration of Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap.
The Roadmap is the nation’s longest-running, statewide bioscience strategic plan. Bookmark this page for regular updates on the biosciences in Arizona and the development of the new Roadmap coming this fall.
Live Blog: Arizona's Bioscience Roadmap
News and Updates
Weiner visit launches medical issues consortium
November 15, 2004
Arizona scholars, educators, bioscientists and physicians gave warm welcome to science writer Jonathan Weiner and children's book author Deborah Heiligman during their guest appearances at a recent series of events inaugurating the Arizona Consortium for Medicine, Society and Values.
Venture fund bolstered by $25 million investment
November 09, 2004
A high-tech, venture-capital fund spawned by Gov. Janet Napolitano and Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon has received its first funding commitment—a $25 million investment by the State Compensation Fund (SCF).
Community colleges groom Arizona’s bioscience workforce
October 26, 2004
Since the fall of 2003, when educators and bioscience industry leaders completed the Arizona Bioscience Workforce Strategy, community and technical colleges around the state have been developing new programs and innovative ways to train more workers to meet the needs…
Report suggests cleanroom conversion to tackle wet-lab shortage
October 22, 2004
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…
Governor creates commission to plan Phoenix medical school
October 21, 2004
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…
Pulitzer-winner Jonathan Weiner to address bioethics at Phoenix lecture
October 20, 2004
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…
UA bioengineer blazes entrepreneurial trail
October 20, 2004
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…
