Arizona Bioscience Special Supplement

The Arizona Bioscience Special Supplement in the Sept./Oct. issue of AzBusiness Magazine reaches 25,000 readers in print and 122,500 online and helps the community get engaged in the weeks leading up to AZBW. All Attendees at the AZBio Awards and AZAdvances Health Innovation Summit will receive the AZBio Special Supplement and the 2025-2026 AZBio Member Directory.

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Arizonans are advancing life changing and life saving innovations along the path from discovery to development to delivery.

AZAdvances is developing the funding that will help advance health innovations in Arizona today and for generations to come.

Charitable donations to the AZAdvances fund at the Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation, an Arizona based 501c3 public charity, are a way to support the creation of tomorrow's medical innovations.

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Exploring Innovation in Biosciences and Healthcare

Attention Teachers!
Discover Arizona’s thriving bioscience and healthcare industry and bring innovation and real-world engagement in your classroom. In this video, Shelli Boggs, Maricopa County School Superintendent, will share about the exciting on-demand industry spotlights and teacher resources happening each day, featuring entrepreneurs in the Bioscience industry.

You will hear from Dr. Joanna Yang Yowler, Ph.D., Flinn Foundation, who will provide highlights of innovation in the Bioscience and Healthcare industry.

To supplement the video, teachers will receive:

A Bioscience and Healthcare student Career Aptitude activity and explore Bioscience and Health Careers.

Register HERE for on-demand Bioscience Industry Spotlight Videos and Resources

ASU Market Access Workshop

The College of Health Solutions presents the ASU Market Access Workshop on Tuesday, Oct. 14 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at ASU’s Health Futures Center.

As an expansion of the ASU National Diagnostics Summit, we will host the Market Access Workshop focused on diagnostic reimbursement and regulation. The workshop will take place the day before the summit. This in-person-only workshop will be led by ASU biomedical diagnostics faculty and ALVA10’s Lena Chaihorsky, featuring both didactic and applied components.

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Discovering and Developing New Medicines in Arizona

The 6^th Annual Drug Discovery and Development Summit, curated by the Arizona Center for Drug Discovery, will highlight translational research from bench to bedside and creation to clinic, discovering effective drug candidates for cancer and advancing these innovative drugs into clinical trials. A focus of the summit will be establishing opportunities for new partnerships and collaborations to discover, develop, and commercialize Arizona inventions.

Showcase your cutting-edge research as a poster presentation and compete for cash prizes awarded to the top three posters: all areas of research associated with therapeutic targets are welcome. Cash Prizes are supported by the AZAdvances Talent Program.

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Andrew Heuerman: The Patient Company

Invent to Improve! —Problem-Solving in Healthcare

"Have you ever faced a frustrating or difficult process and thought, there has to be a better way!’? In today’s spotlight video, teacher and students will meet Andrew Heuerman, CEO and co-founder of The Patient Company, who turned that exact thought into a groundbreaking invention! Driven by a passion to protect the people who care for us, his team engineered an innovative device that makes moving patients safer, easier, and injury-free for healthcare workers."

To supplement the video, teachers will receive:

A problem-solving in healthcare classroom activity
A classroom Design Thinking project to develop a medical device prototype

Register HERE for on-demand Bioscience Industry Spotlight Videos and Resources

ASU National Diagnostics Summit 2025

The College of Health Solutions presents ASU National Diagnostics Summit 2025 on Wednesday, Oct. 15 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at ASU’s Health Futures Center.

The summit will be in its traditional hybrid format — on-site at ASU’s Health Futures Center in north Phoenix and via Zoom. To maximize networking and conversation, we encourage you to join us in person.

This year’s summit will focus on the future of testing in our turbulent times, exploring how AI can be used in the lab and test manufacturing, how data can improve diagnostic processes and the challenges and opportunities of home testing.

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JD Hill: R. City: From Food Waste to Community Impact

"Did you know the average person throws away 324 pounds of food every year?! Today’s spotlight video features JD Hill, from R.City, an innovator who is turning that waste into opportunity, helping local farmers, reducing food miles, and supporting local communities. Discover how math, science, and creativity solve real-world problems and make a lasting impact. JD’s journey shows how one person with perseverance and grit can innovate, support communities, and transform the way we think about food and sustainability.

To supplement the video, teachers will receive:

A classroom activity where students will explore the impact of food waste on their community
A classroom Design Thinking project to find solutions for food waste

Register HERE for on-demand Bioscience Industry Spotlight Videos and Resource

Shane Brown – NurseIO

Meet Shane Brown, CEO of Nurse IO, a company revolutionizing healthcare staffing! With over a million nursing openings in the U.S., the NurseIO team created an app that connects nurses to healthcare facilities. In this spotlight video, students will discover how Shane combines technical skills, creativity, and teamwork to tackle one of healthcare’s biggest problems. From AI-powered solutions to innovative thinking, this video shows how engineering, science, communication and leadership can make an impact in healthcare.

To supplement the video, teachers will receive:

A classroom activity to explore different apps for the bioscience and/or healthcare industry.
A classroom Design Thinking project to develop an app that addresses a challenge in bioscience and/or healthcare.

Register HERE for on-demand Bioscience Industry Spotlight Videos and Resource

Runway for Research

TGen, City of Hope, Scottsdale Fashion Square and Neiman Marcus cordially invite you to attend the fifth annual Runway for Research fashion show – the highlight of Arizona’s fall social season. This year’s vibrant theme, Pink Elegance, encourages guests to dress in their finest shades of pink as we gather to celebrate survivors, community spirit, and hope while raising critical funds for women’s cancer research. For more than 2 decades, TGen has conducted groundbreaking research in the Valley with life-changing results for patients.

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Meet Kim Rodgers of Mountain Ridge High School, Deer Valley USD—the 2025 Michael A. Cusanovich Arizona Bioscience Educator of the Year, awarded by the Arizona Bioindustry Association: AZBio.org.

In this spotlight video, students will step inside Kim’s classroom to see how innovative teaching sparks curiosity, inspires discovery, and prepares the next generation of scientists and healthcare leaders.

To supplement the video, teachers will receive: