Total Artificial Heart Replaces Left Ventricular Assist Devices in 7 Patients With Total Artificial Heart.
Two Patients Bridged to Transplant, Five Currently Waiting for a Donor HeartContinue reading
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Scaling up: Arbsource gets DOE Award
Arbsource earns $150,000 from the Department of Energy for product developmentContinue reading
Cancer Prevention Pharmaceuticals Wins Arizona Innovation Challenge
Cancer Prevention Pharmaceuticals Awarded Arizona Innovation ChallengeContinue reading
Two UA Professors Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Roy Parker is renowned for his work on the cellular machinery that translates genetic information into proteins.
The history of the universe is becoming clearer thanks to the field of infrared astronomy and the contributions of Marcia J. Rieke.Continue reading
Immunosignaturing: an accurate, affordable and stable diagnostic
Identifying diseases at an early, presymptomatic stage may offer the best chance for establishing proper treatment and improving patient outcomes. A new technique known as immunosignaturing harnesses the human immune system as an early warning sentry – one acutely sensitive to changes in the body that may be harbingers of illness.Continue reading
Ventana Medical gets Congressional props
Ventana Medical Systems, Inc., a Member of the Roche Group, recently was honored on the floor of the United States House of Representatives for leadership in cancer diagnostics that improves patient safety.Continue reading
Opportunity Alert: Arizona Experience Shines Spotlight on AZ’s Bio Innovators
On 24 April, the Arizona Experience website unveils Biotechnology and Life Sciences theme showcasing the organizations, institutions, and research facilities that have helped catapult Arizona to one of the nation’s leading states in biomedical research. Flinn Foundation, AZBio, BIO5 Institute, ASU Biodesign Institute, NAU, and numerous institutions provided their insight and materials in order to showcase the successes in Arizona’s biotech community.
“One of the recommendations of Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap is to inform state citizens on the importance and potential of the biosciences,” said Brad Halvorsen, Vice President for Communications, Flinn Foundation. “The Arizona Experience website will be instrumental in helping to get the message to broad audiences that may be new to the biosciences.”
The April 24 roll out of the Arizona Biotechnology and Life Sciences theme includes:
- Interview with Dr. Nadja Anderson, Director of BIOTECH Project.
- Interview with Dr. JeffreyTrent, President and Scientific Director TGen.
- Bioscience education in Arizona’s colleges, universities, and high schools. Discover how students are impacting their world, one project at a time.
- Interactive maps pinpointing growth in biosciences since 2002, including patient care facilities and biomedical companies.
Additional topics and content will continue to roll out for the next 30 days, including:
- Featured Artist –Student centennial art competition winners from across the state.
- Tumamoc Hill America’s first Desert Botanical Laboratory; the birthplace of conservation ecology.
- Explore how citizen science groups around the state are impacting their world.
- Arizona State University’s groundbreaking Ask a Biologist program.
- Habimap – Mapping Wildlife and Habitat Conservation Potential by Arizona Game and Fish Dept.
- Browse through the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum’s digital collection of over 12,000 images.
About Arizona Experience – The Arizona Experience is a dynamic, multimedia, 4D (3D plus time) web environment with interactive maps, thousands of images, historical timelines, flyovers of iconic landscapes, interviews with Arizona leaders, featured artists, videos (both onsite and at the Arizona Experience YouTube channel), and oral histories that capture the experiences of the men and women that shaped the state.
Opportunity Alert: Apply to the Fall 2012 Flinn-Brown Civic Leadership Academy
Arizona’s future is tied to the strength of its leadership. The Flinn-Brown Civic Leadership Academy, a nonpartisan program sponsored by the Flinn Foundation and the Thomas R. Brown Foundations is helping to train tomorrow’s civic leaders and now is the time to apply for the Fall program.Continue reading
SynCardia’s Total Artificial Heart Receives HUD Designation for Destination Therapy from FDA
Approval of HDE Will Allow Up to 4,000 U.S. Patients Not Eligible for Transplant to Receive the Total Artificial Heart on a Permanent BasisContinue reading
RiboMed launches improved prognostic multi biomarker epigenetic test for brain cancer
“The unparalleled sensitivity, accuracy, and reproducibility offered by the Abscription®-based G-CIMP test, coupled with its ability to efficiently assess multiple methylation biomarkers in FFPE patient samples, makes this the best in class option for prognostic glioma testing.”Continue reading