For more than a decade, scientist Stephen Albert Johnston and his team at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have pooled their energies into an often scoffed-at, high-risk, high-reward goal in medicine: to develop a universal vaccine to prevent cancer.Continue reading
Category Archives: AZBio News
Cereset® Announces Mild-Traumatic Brain Injury Focused Clinical Trial Progress
Results to date demonstrate that Cereset’s technology may help U.S. military personnel suffering from concussionContinue reading
First Annual University Flu Shot Challenge Launched at Several Arizona Campuses
New Campaign Brings Awareness About the Importance of Flu Vaccination to AZ StudentsContinue reading
PathogenDx Announces $7.5 Million in Series B Funding
DNA-based pathogen testing company completes funding round led by Cresco Capital Partners in just three monthsContinue reading
Is Life Science Innovation At Risk?
Opinion: Speaker Pelosi’s Drug Pricing Plan “Crushes the Desperate Hopes of Patients and their Families”
Click here to listen to an interview with BIO President and CEO, Jim Greenwood.
Onco ‘Zine Interview Highlights Arizona Life Science Innovators
Listen to the Onco’Zine Brief hosted by Peter Holfland: A Commitment to Innovation in Medicines, Medical Devices and Healthcare TechnologiesContinue reading
UA Health Sciences Researchers Seek to Treat Pain Caused by Chemotherapy Without Opioids
UA Health Sciences Start-up company Regulonix Receives Grant as Part of NIH “Helping to End Addiction Long-Term Initiative” (NIH Heal Initiative).Continue reading
Calling on Congress to Repeal The Medical Device Excise Tax
On September 24, 2019, a letter was sent to Congressional Leaders in the Senate and House leadership on behalf of a group of over six hundred innovators, patient groups, physicians, hospitals, venture capitalists and other stakeholders representing millions of patients and hundreds of thousands medical technology jobs, requesting that Congress prioritize repeal of the medical device excise tax before it causes any more harm to the innovation ecosystem. Continue reading
Marti Lindsey, PhD, of the University of Arizona, to be honored as the Michael A. Cusanovich Arizona Bioscience Educator of the Year
CHANDLER, Ariz. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — The Arizona Bioindustry Association (AZBio) today announced that Marti Lindsey, PhD, community engagement director for the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy and the founder and co-director of the KEYS High School Student Internship program at the UA BIO5 Institute, will be honored as the Michael A. Cusanovich Arizona Bioscience Educator of the Year at the AZBio Awards on Oct. 2, 2019.
“Learning opportunities are all around us,” stated Joan Koerber-Walker, president and CEO of AZBio. “Many of these opportunities are thanks to dedicated educators who work to make them engaging, enlightening and memorable. They help us understand the world we live in today and provide tools we can use to shape our tomorrows. Dr. Marti Lindsey is a great example of an educator who is making a difference here in Arizona and across the Southwest region.”Continue reading