Wildcat Play Hospital, STEM bus, robotic Legos thrilled kids at family-friendly eventContinue reading
Author Archive: AZBio
UA Part of $8.9M Collaborative Grant to Understand How Dangerous Virus `Hides’ to Attack Another Day
Dr. Felicia Goodrum and several of the nation’s most prominent human cytomegalovirus researchers have been awarded a five-year, $8.9 million collaborative grant to investigate how the virus lies dormant until it activates and poses life-threatening disease risk.Continue reading
Update – Proposed Continuing Resolution in the U.S. House and Medical Device Tax Suspension
The countdown clock is ticking on the status of federal funding and the end of the two-year suspension of the medical device tax. First payments on the medical device tax are due to be made in just 12 days.Continue reading
C-Path Welcomes Kay Holcombe to its Board of Directors
Critical Path Institute (C-Path) is pleased to welcome Kay Holcombe to its Board of Directors. Recently retired as Senior Vice President for Science Policy at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), Ms. Holcombe brings to the Board her extensive experience in health care and regulatory policy, a history of collaboration with US regulatory agencies, and broad knowledge of government initiatives that affect the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.Continue reading
HTG Molecular Diagnostics Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock
TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 16, 2018 — HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ:HTGM) (HTG), a provider of instruments, reagents and services for molecular profiling applications, today announced that it intends to offer and sell, subject to market and other conditions, 10,000,000 shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering.Continue reading
RightBio Metrics Honored as a Finalist for a Global Patient Safety Innovation Award
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation Board of Directors has selected RightBio Metrics technology as a finalist for the Patient Safety Innovation Awards. The third annual Patient Safety Innovation Awards have drawn in a plethora of innovative products and processes designed to significantly improve patient safety and help reach the foundation’s goal of ZERO preventable patient deaths by 2020. These submissions from across the globe represent some of the most innovative products and process improvements the Patient Safety Movement Foundation has seen in the last three years . There were more than 50 submissions and RightBio Metrics was selected as one of three finalists.Continue reading
$200 Million Endowment Campaign Launches to Support Commercialization of Healthcare Innovations in Arizona
AZ-HCIF is the first in a portfolio of endowments from across the U.S. and around the world that will be collectively grown and managed by the Healthcare Impact Foundation (HCIF).Continue reading
Biodesign Institute Introduces “A Sip of Science”
World-renowned researchers and science aficionados converge at valley restaurantsContinue reading
UA Physician-Scientist Awarded Grant to Develop First Diagnostic Test for Schizophrenia
Amelia Gallitano, MD, PhD, a physician-scientist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, has received a grant to develop a novel diagnostic test for schizophrenia.Continue reading