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Provista to go public with breast, lung cancer testing technology
Phoenix Business Journal, Friday, December 30, 2011
by Linda Obele, Contributing Writer
The Great Recession seems to have been more of a nuisance than a hindrance to Provista Life Sciences .Continue reading
ASU students earn national acclaim for ingenious solution
Team of ASU student entrepreneurs came up with the award winning idea of turning the containers into portable maternity clinics that could be shipped to countries that had extremely high maternal mortality rates.
ASU student startup named College Entrepreneur of the Year
(As seen @ASUNews)
See video about the G3Box project that won the national student entrepreneurship competition.
Dr. Connie Mariano named Chief Clinical Officer and Chair of Medical Advisory Board at EmpowHER
2011 AZBio Fast Lane Award Honoree EmpowHER Media names Dr. Connie Mariano Chief Clinical Officer and Chair of Medical Advisory Board
Leading Social Health Company for Women Appoints Lauded Industry Luminary and Former White House Physician to Clinical Oversight Roles
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Dr. Connie Mariano
2011 Fast Lane Honoree Algae Bio expands production facilities
In a region that is rapidly becoming known as a mecca for the natural resource industry with potash, solar and wind energy, another resource, algae, is now gaining notice. Six years ago Andrew Ayers bought 70 acres of land in an area east of Holbrook known as Adamana, believing it held something that to him was more precious than gold. In the vast open desert of northeastern Arizona Ayers discovered that beneath the surface lay pure salt water, and that salt water is ideal for Ayers’ research in macro algae.Continue reading
U of A Tech Launch to move new technologies forward faster
Arizona Public Media interviewed U of A President Eugene Sander on the university’s new tech transfer inititaive…. Tech Launch Arizona. (Video) Continue reading
NAU and Flagship Biosciences Partnership Featured Inside NAU
Partnership with biotech firm magnifies student skillsContinue reading
‘Dream Team’ stands up to melanoma cancer
December 14, 2011:
Joe Caspermeyer, Biodesign Institute via http://asunews.asu.edu/20111214_melanomadreamteam
ASU’s Deirdre Meldrum and Joshua LaBaer, of the Biodesign Institute, have been named to the new Melanoma Dream Team created by Stand Up to Cancer, the Melanoma Research Alliance and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). The collaborative Dream Team project, involving scientists from top research institutions across the country, is focused on developing targeted, personalized therapies for a subtype of skin cancer that is difficult to treat. The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute will lead the $6 million national and international study.Continue reading
Total Artificial Heart Recipient Heads Home for the Holidays with New Donor Heart & Kidney
Husband and Wife’s New Year’s Resolutions: Become Advocates for Organ Donation, Meet the Donor Family and Inspire Love and Peace Amongst OthersContinue reading
Flagship Biosciences Further Refines Tumor Heterogeneity Analysis
Technique evaluates heterogeneity of tumors using novel image analysis algorithms with standard immunohistochemistry techniques
Press Release via 2011 AZBio Fast Lane Award winner Flagship Biosciences.Continue reading