From Discovery To Development To Delivery
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)
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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.
Success Stories – Good News from Arizona’s BioIndustry
CRITICAL PATH INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES NEW CEO
Tucson, Arizona, February 1, 2012– Critical Path Institute (C-Path) announced today that Dr. Carolyn Compton has joined the organization as its new president and chief executive officer. Dr. Compton takes over for Dr. Raymond L. Woosley, C-Path’s founder, who last year announced his intention to step down as President/CEO, and asked the Board of Directors […]
Plan Now to Connect Locally and Nationally in April
Spring is just around the corner and now is the time to make your plans to join AZBio and get connected locally and nationally this April.
Read in The Republic: Arizona’s bioscience industry prospers
Report: Industry added jobs even as private sector lagged By Ken Alltucker – Jan. 31, 2012 06:02 PM The Republic | azcentral.com
Living to 100 Kicks off at the U of A
Dean Shane Burgess kicked off The University of Arizona’s Living to 100 Lecture Series Tuesday asking the questions “Can we?” and “What if we do?” Afterwards, four Arizona Science Teachers shared tips with the Arizona Daily Star on what it will take to live to 100 and what we might face when we get there.
Events
- Coping with Cancer for the Holidays
- 12/07/2019
- Phoenix
- Arizona Conference on Developing Therapeutics for Cancer and Immunology
- 12/09/2019
- Phoenix
- AZBio Trailblazer Awards and Legislator Appreciation Luncheon
- 12/12/2019
- Phoenix
- State Bio Friends Reception - JPM Week 2020
- 01/12/2020
- San Francisco
- Biotech Showcase 2020
- 01/13/2020 - 01/15/2020
- San Francisco