Picking Up The Pace

This Spring AZBio is picking up the pace with more ways for you and your bioscience team to Move Forward…Faster.  The process of acceleration requires that we connect, engage and collaborate each step of the way.  When we step it up, so can you. Each month this Spring we have opportunities for you to build new relationships, create new partnerships, and get noticed.Continue reading

Geneticist, informatics expert Buetow to lead new research program at ASU

Kenneth H. Buetow, a human geneticist and former director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology at the National Cancer Institute, is joining Arizona State University as director of Computational Sciences and Informatics in the Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative. He will hold the rank of full professor in the School of Life Sciences in ASU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His appointment is effective March 5.Continue reading

1,000th Implant of the World’s Only Approved Total Artificial Heart Performed

SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart, announced today that the 1,000th implant of the world’s first and only FDA, Health Canada and CE (Europe) approved Total Artificial Heart was performed on Feb. 10 at The University of Arizona Medical Center in Tucson, AZ. Since then, an additional four implants of the Total Artificial Heart have been performed at SynCardia Certified Centers in Germany, France and the United States.Continue reading