AZBio

Arizona BioIndustry Association - AZBio

AZBio seeks to unify, empower and advance its member organizations, who collectively form Arizona’s bioscience community. As the unified voice of the bioscience industry in Arizona, AZBio strives to make Arizona a place where bioscience companies can grow and succeed.

AZBio Member Benefit Spotlight

VWR International, a leading global distributor of scientific equipment, supplies, chemicals and furniture, has entered into a distribution agreement with GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences Corp.

Under the terms of the agreement, VWR extends to AZBio members discounts for a range of GE products, including radiochemicals, film, and certain electrophoresis, chromatography and nucleic acid purification products.

Windhover Information Inc., the leading provider of analysis and commentary on healthcare business strategy, industry dealmaking, marketplace trends, and the world of medical start-ups, is now a BIO Business Solutions partner. AZBio members are entitield to significants discounts on subscriptions and database packages.

AZBio Member Spotlight

(May 12, 2008) MedApps has been selected as one of the nation's most 10 innovative companies as part of Dell's 2008 Global Small Business Excellence Award. The MedApps Mobile Wireless Health Monitoring System helps connect people afflicted with chronic disdeases like Diabetes, Asthma, Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) and COPD, with their healthcare providers.

(May 8, 2008) Shares of Tucson-based ImaRx Therapeutics surged 155 percent Wednesday after the biotechnology company struck a $17 million deal to sell a clot-dissolving product to a Canadian biotechnology company. ImaRx representatives said the sale of its urokinase supplies to Toronto-based Microbix Biosystems will give the Tucson company cash to develop its original clot-busting technology, called SonoLysis.

(May 5, 2008) Kinetic Muscles Inc. (KMI) (Tempe, AZ) and its distributor Columbia Scientific (CS) announced an agreement with HealthSouth Corporation (NYSE: HLS) for use of KMI's industry-leading Hand Mentor ProTM neurobotic system in select HealthSouth rehabilitation hospitals. "This is an important step for KMI. HealthSouth's vast network of hospitals and clinics will provide a signifiant ramp in our penetration of the stroke rehabilitation market," said Grant Farrell, CEO of KMI.