Improving the quality of life in Arizona to benefit future generations.
Mayo Clinic surgical oncologist Barbara Pockaj attacks cancer on multiple fronts. In her surgical battle against patients' tumors, Pockaj feels she is curing cancer every day. But when she doffs scrubs and dons a lab coat as part of an extensive Arizona collaboration on melanoma, her part in the war is raised to an entirely new level.
With research facilities underway at Arizona's universities and in downtown Phoenix, attention is turning to the researchers who will ultimately bring these buildings to life.
A group of economic developers from the Netherlands spent the week meeting with Arizona scientists and business leaders to forge relationships for potential future partnerships.
Members of the media and communications officials representing government, academia, technology councils and economic development groups were in attendance yesterday as expert presenters brought them up to date on past and proposed bio developments in the state.
Universities traditionally maintain a stark legal and cultural separation from the business world. But such a separation can stand in the way of successfully commercializing research, a blow to both the economy and a region's capacity to attract high-tech businesses. Learn how Arizona's universities are working to bridge that gap, and the vital role that an amendment on the November ballot will play in determining the fate of Arizona's knowledge economy.
New publications that spotlight Arizona's biotech and technology industries were introduced last week by Business Journal and Arizona Technology Council.
A University of Arizona program that seeks to increase collaboration among life sciences faculty and improve technology commercialization efforts has pared its list of possible directors to four.
Arizona bioscience efforts have been highlighted in the Scotland-based Sunday Herald. The article provides a brief overview of the past two years' efforts to transform Arizona into a bioscience and biotechnology hub, including the establishment of two keystone organizations, International Genomics Consortium and the Translational Genomics Research Institute.
Governor Napolitano rallied nearly 500 business and technology leaders at her annual tech forum, urging passage of three new bills and a constitutional amendment that would strengthen the state's high-tech infrastructure.
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