The Fall 2025 cohort will focus on SaaS startups
“With the prominent growth of the software market globally and in Arizona, we’re excited to support SaaS-focused startups through this year’s Arizona Innovation Challenge,” said Sandra Watson, President and CEO of the Arizona Commerce Authority. “We’re grateful to our Arizona venture capitalist partners for their collaboration and look forward to seeing the exciting startups in this year’s competition.”
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of AdvaMed, the Medtech Association, we recognize the critical role the medtech industry has played – and always will play – in transforming people’s lives. As the current Administration launches it’s “Make America Healthy Again” initiative, it’s important that we remember that the medtech industry has been making America healthy again since its inception. The story of medtech is the most powerful story in health care and it really is a story as old as toolmaking itself. It is the story of getting people back to good health. Back to “normal.” Back to playing with their grandchildren. Back to moving, walking, and even seeing again. Back to life. Continue reading
PMC, the Personalized Medicine Coalition, announced that George Poste, DVM, PhD, Regents Professor and Del E. Webb Chair in Health Innovation and Chief Scientist, Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative at Arizona State University, will receive the 2025 Award for Leadership in Personalized Medicine at this year’s Personalized Medicine Conference, to be held November 13–14 at the Ritz Carlton, Laguna Niguel, in Dana Point, California. This award recognizes Dr. Poste’s substantial multi-decade contributions to the advancement of personalized medicine and his enduring impact on science, technology, and policy.Continue reading
Marvin J. Slepian, MD, JD, a Regents Professor of medicine, radiology and imaging sciences and surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson and of biomedical engineering at the U of A College of Engineering, received this year’s University Distinguished Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award. Continue reading
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) agent powered by a large language model (LLM) that creates more accurate and informative descriptions of biological processes and their functions in gene set analysis than current systems.Continue reading
Findings suggest that the patients themselves produce molecules that could reawaken their immune system to battle lung cancerContinue reading
Suzanne Pfister, an extraordinary leader and public servant whose tenure as Vitalyst Health Foundation’s President and CEO transformed the organization and inspired paradigm-shifting change across Arizona’s health landscape.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced the appointment of George Francis Tidmarsh, M.D., Ph.D., as Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). In this role, Dr. Tidmarsh will lead the FDA’s efforts to ensure safe, effective, and high-quality drugs are available to the American people.Continue reading
July 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — GT Medical Technologies, Inc., a medical device company dedicated to improving the lives of patients with brain tumors, today announced the company has completed the close of its oversubscribed $53 million Series D equity financing.Continue reading