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
Governor, key legislator put tech companies, medical school on ’05 agenda
January 11, 2005
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…
Michigan economic developer takes reins at GPEC
December 20, 2004
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…
Crow and Poste christen first Biodesign building
December 20, 2004
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.
Flinn Foundation adds two board members
December 13, 2004
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…
UA med-tech program shut down by Regents
December 01, 2004
In a 5-4 vote, the Arizona Board of Regents approved closing the doors on the University of Arizona's Medical Technology program
Vaccinologist follows inner compass to right place at right time
November 30, 2004
Few scientists have the opportunity to occupy intellectual ground zero of a paradigm shift, but vaccinologist Roy Curtiss, for whom ASU recently put up $3.8 million to lure to its Biodesign Institute, seems to have a knack for being the…
ASU biophysicist gets grant to accelerate gene-mapping
November 29, 2004
Bolstered by a new grant from the National Institutes of Health, ASU biophysicist Stuart Lindsay aims to make human-genome sequencing quick and affordable—taking mere hours and costing less than $1,000. The initial sequencing, completed in 2002, required 11 years and…
