SCOTTSDALE, AZ — (MARKET WIRE) — 10/13/11

— EmpowHER, an award-winning social health company for women, was honored with the AZBio Fast Lane Award presented by the Arizona Bioindustry Association (AZBio), the state’s leading trade association for organizations involved in the biosciences. The Fast Lane Award recognizes companies and organizations in the healthcare and health information fields that through recent innovations have yielded measurable results that are moving their organizations and the state of Arizona forward faster.Continue reading→

The Arizona BioIndustry Association announced the leaders and innovators who are moving the Arizona biosciences industry forward faster at the 2011 AZBio Awards on October 13, 2011 in front of a standing room only crowd.  Winners include: Dr. Nadja Anderson of the University of Arizona BIO5 Institute, 2011 Michael A. Cusanovich Educator of the Year, SynCardia Systems, Inc.,  as the 2011 Arizona Bioscience Company of the Year, Dr. Robert Penny  of the International Genomics Consortium as  Jon W. McGarity Bioscience Leader of the Year , Dr. Jessica Langbaum of the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute as 2011 Arizona Bioscience Researcher of the Year, and Greg Stanton as the winner of the 2011 Public Service Award.Continue reading→

MSDx announced today the first of a series of blood testing products that provide novel tools for studying disease processes. Today the company is introducing The NK Cytolytic Competence Assay (Human CD16/Perforin) Flow Cytometry Kit, a Research Use Only (RUO) kit, which has wide-ranging potential for research in multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes and many other disease areas.Continue reading→

Patrick Soon-Shiong, chairman and CEO of National LambdaRail, announced the appointment of ASU President Michael M. Crow as head of a new Chairman’s Advisory Council.Aided by a $100 million guarantee from the Chan Soon-Shiong Institute for Advanced Health to upgrade and extend its network to support big science projects, the council will help guide the new mission of National LambdaRail, the 12,000-mile-high-performance communications network linking the nation’s leading research institutions.Continue reading→

ERIC BETZ Sun Staff  Reporter   azdailysun.com  |  Monday, September 12, 2011

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Paul Keim was out for a run with his  dog on Observatory Mesa, oblivious to the events unfolding along the eastern  seaboard.