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AZBio is committed to building a top-tier life science industry in Arizona.

Arizona has a sizable and rapidly growing bioscience industry. State bioscience firms employed 25,686 in 2016 in 1,310 individual business establishments. Industry employment has grown by 9 percent since 2014, twice the growth rate of the nation, with four of the five major subsectors adding jobs during the period. Both drugs and pharmaceuticals and research, testing and medical labs have experienced double-digit job growth since 2014. Arizona inventors have been awarded nearly 2,000 bioscience-related patents since 2014, among the second quintile of states in patent activity. Since 2015, NIH awards to Arizona institutions have increased, reaching $189 million in FY 2017. (Get The Facts)

A key component in Arizona’s life science ecosystem, the Arizona Bioindustry Association (AZBio) is the only statewide organization exclusively focused on Arizona’s bioscience industry. AZBio membership includes patient advocacy organizations, life science innovators, educators, healthcare partners and leading business organizations. AZBio is the statewide affiliate of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) and works in partnership with AdvaMed, MDMA, and PhRMA to advance innovation and to ensure that the value delivered from life-changing and life-saving innovation benefits people in Arizona and around the world.

AdvaMed Unveils Strategic Plan to Guide Advocacy Efforts

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) today unveiled a strategic plan that will guide its policy and advocacy activities to help the U.S. medical technology industry maintain its global competitive edge and to encourage innovation.

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.

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 Basis

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.”