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Arizona Biomedical Research Centre, through the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), announces that a Request for Grant Applications (RFGA) solicitation process has posted
RFGA2026-03 Arizona Investigator Grants (AZ-IG)& New Investigator Awards (NIA)
Accepting Letters of Intent: August 8, 2025 through September 5, 2025Continue reading
Governor Katie Hobbs Takes Action to Lower Cost of Prescription Drugs for Arizonans
New initiative will help Arizonans save up to 80% on qualifying medications
Governor Hobbs Announces Arizona Tech Week 2026
State’s first-ever decentralized tech conference to showcase Arizona’s technology leadership and bring together top innovators, founders, and investorsContinue reading
Fiscal year 2025, the University of Arizona breaks record (again) for impactful inventions
Faculty and student engagement in innovation and commercialization continues to grow.
Arizona Commerce Authority Accepting Applications For 2025 Arizona Innovation Challenge
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.”
AdvaMed is Celebrating 50 Years of Medtech Milestones
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
2025 Award for Leadership in Personalized Medicine to be Awarded to George Poste, DVM, PhD
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 Slepian recognized with Distinguished Faculty Award
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
NIH researchers develop AI agent that improves accuracy of gene set analysis by leveraging expert-curated databases
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