Calling on Congress to Repeal The Medical Device Excise Tax

On September 24, 2019, a letter was sent to Congressional Leaders in the Senate and House leadership on behalf of  a group of over six hundred innovators, patient groups, physicians, hospitals, venture capitalists and other stakeholders representing millions of patients and hundreds of thousands medical technology jobs,  requesting that Congress prioritize repeal of the medical device excise tax before it causes any more harm to the innovation ecosystem. Continue reading

Marti Lindsey, PhD, of the University of Arizona, to be honored as the Michael A. Cusanovich Arizona Bioscience Educator of the Year

CHANDLER, Ariz. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — The Arizona Bioindustry Association (AZBio) today announced that Marti Lindsey, PhD, community engagement director for the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy and the founder and co-director of the KEYS High School Student Internship program at the UA BIO5 Institute, will be honored as the Michael A. Cusanovich Arizona Bioscience Educator of the Year at the AZBio Awards on Oct. 2, 2019.

“Learning opportunities are all around us,” stated Joan Koerber-Walker, president and CEO of AZBio. “Many of these opportunities are thanks to dedicated educators who work to make them engaging, enlightening and memorable. They help us understand the world we live in today and provide tools we can use to shape our tomorrows. Dr. Marti Lindsey is a great example of an educator who is making a difference here in Arizona and across the Southwest region.”Continue reading

Better samples, better science: new study explores integrity of research specimens

Ensuring the proper handling of biological samples used for research is the first step in careful research that meets the necessary high standards of reliability and reproducibility.  A new test, which relies on accurate measurement of the relative proportions of two forms of the protein albumin present in blood, was recently described in the journal Molecular and Cellular Proteomics.Continue reading