Each year the Arizona Bioindustry Association, Inc. shines a spotlight on three Arizona life science companies that have achieved outstanding milestones in the past 18 months. In 2024, Nectero Medical, Inc., PriZm Therapeutics, and The Patient Company are being honored with AZBio Fast Lane Awards on September 18, 2024 at the 20th annual AZBio Awards. Continue reading
Category Archives: AZBio News
Mixed Perspectives on the 2 year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act
August 16, 2024, marks the 2 year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). One of the most talked about and written about policies of the current administration, The IRA has far reaching impacts. Whether they are positive or negative is a matter of perspective.Continue reading
Exploring Pathways to Bioscience and Healthcare Careers during AZBW 2024
Attention Teachers! Are you looking for free, engaging, on-demand resources to inspire your students with the possibilities in Arizona’s Bioscience and Healthcare industries? Thanks to the Exploring Pathways to Bioscience and Healthcare Careers grant, and support by the Flinn Foundation and the Office of the Maricopa County School Superintendent we have new resources for you and your students to enjoy during and after Arizona Bioscience Week.Continue reading
C-Path’s TRxA Announces $250,000 Grant for Drug Development Project on Antibiotic-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria
TUCSON, Ariz. August 13, 2024– Critical Path Institute’s (C-Path) Translational Therapeutics Accelerator (TRxA) announced today that Kenneth Keiler, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Biosciences at the University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a research grant for his innovative project titled “Inhibitors of the Gram-negative Cell Envelope Stress Response as Anti-Infectives and Antibiotics.” Continue reading
Flambeau Medical is Growing in Phoenix
Flambeau Medical, a full-service, contract manufacturing organization serving the medical device and life science industries is growing in Phoenix. The company provides a full suite of development and manufacturing capabilities in FDA registered and ISO-13485:2016 certified manufacturing operations.Continue reading
Suresh Garimella to become the 23rd president of the University of Arizona
The Arizona Board of Regents has appointed Suresh Garimella as the 23rd president of the University of Arizona.Continue reading
CMS Publishes Final TCET Rule to Guide Medtech Innovators
In June of 2023, the comment period for the proposed rule on Transitional Coverage for Emerging Technologies (TCET) through the national coverage determination (NCD) process under the Social Security Act closed. The draft rule has been released for public inspection and the final rule will be published on August 12, 2024.Continue reading
Accelerate Diagnostics Announces a Successful Completion of its WAVE™ Pre-Clinical Trial
Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AXDX) an innovator of rapid in vitro diagnostics in microbiology, announced the successful completion of its WAVE pre-clinical trial. The Accelerate WAVE system is designed to deliver rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing (“AST”) directly from positive blood culture (“PBC”) bottles and bacterial isolated colonies (“Isolates”) to report accurate results within 4.5 hours, on average.Continue reading
C-Path’s TRxA Announces $250,000 Award for Drug Development Project in ALS
TUCSON, Ariz., August 8, 2024 – Critical Path Institute’s (C-Path) Translational Therapeutics Accelerator (TRxA) announced today a new research grant awarded to Daniela C. Zarnescu, Ph.D., Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Penn State University College of Medicine, in collaboration with Jon Njardarson, Ph.D., Professor at the University of Arizona. Continue reading
C-Path Inaugural Global Impact Conference: Pioneering Drug Development Collaborations
Sept. 9-11, 2024, Washington, D.C.Continue reading