A Tempe bioscience firm selling its DNA analysis kits to 25 countries worldwide is expanding into the education sector.Continue reading
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FDA Allows a Phase II Clinical Trial in Stroke for NuvOx Pharma’s DDFPe
NuvOx Pharma, a clinical stage biotechnology company, announces that the FDA has allowed a Phase II clinical trial in 60 stroke patients to proceed to test NuvOx’s investigational drug product, dodecafluoropentane emulsion (DDFPe). Continue reading
Hoolest wins top prize at ASU Open
An Arizona State University team won $100,000 at the ASU Innovation Open on Friday to fund their business, which makes a device that relieves anxiety.Continue reading
New Pain Management Online Course Launched by UA Center for Integrative Medicine
Amid the national opioid crisis, “Integrative Approaches to Pain Management” teaches health-care professionals non-pharmaceutical options.Continue reading
NFL Updates Concussion Protocol to Include Researcher’s “Fencing” Response
Response is sign of potential loss of consciousnessContinue reading
Arizona’s Bioscience Community Fills CEI for 2018 Kick Off

From her perch atop a ladder at the front of the room, AZBio president & CEO Joan Koerber-Walker shares AZBio’s key initiatives for 2018 and beyond with leaders from across our life science community.
It was standing room only as researchers, entrepreneurs, business leaders, investors, philanthropists, and patient advocates joined the AZBio Board to kick of AZBio’s 15th year of supporting Arizona’s life science community.Continue reading
Connect2STEM Breaks Record, UA Hosts Largest STEM Event in Phoenix
Wildcat Play Hospital, STEM bus, robotic Legos thrilled kids at family-friendly eventContinue reading
UA Part of $8.9M Collaborative Grant to Understand How Dangerous Virus `Hides’ to Attack Another Day
Dr. Felicia Goodrum and several of the nation’s most prominent human cytomegalovirus researchers have been awarded a five-year, $8.9 million collaborative grant to investigate how the virus lies dormant until it activates and poses life-threatening disease risk.Continue reading
