Legislators wrapped up their summer work in July before leaving town for the August recess, but not without some last minute drama over the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) and the border supplemental bill. Ultimately, lawmakers passed a funding extension for the Highway Trust Fund (HTF), staving off a financial crisis. Congress also moved forward on several tax items and continued to hold oversight hearings on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation.Continue reading
Category Archives: AZBio News
Transformational Gift to McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Arizona Launches Matching Campaign
The gift, and the matching contributions, will help the UA to play a prominent role in the emerging field of neuroscience.
Dad with Donor Heart Has Fingernails Painted Green by Baby Daughter, Thanks to the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart
A congenital heart defect brought Andrew Weaver close to death from end-stage biventricular heart failure. The SynCardia Heart kept him alive and helped build physical strength for his heart transplant.
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Castle Biosciences Completes $11.8 M Financing
Castle Biosciences Inc., a cancer-focused molecular diagnostics company, today announced the completion of an $11.8 million financing. The round was led by new investor HealthQuest Capital, with participation by Castle Biosciences’ current investors including Mountain Group Capital and Affiliates, Longfellow Venture Partners and others. In conjunction with this financing, Garheng Kong, M.D., Ph.D., Managing Partner of HealthQuest Capital, will join Castle Biosciences’ Board of Directors.Continue reading
W.J. “Jim” Lane, Mayor of Scottsdale, Arizona to be honored with AZBio’s Public Service Award
W.J. “Jim” Lane, Mayor of Scottsdale, Arizona, has been selected as the recipient of the 2014 AZBio Public Service award by the Arizona BioIndustry Association.Continue reading
Paradigm Initiates Genomic Profiling for Pharmatech’s AccessPPM Cancer Registry Program
Novel clinical trial matching protocol enables greater access to genomic profiling and targeted clinical studies for cancer patients nationwide.Continue reading
NAU Reseachers Study Link Between Uranium Exposure And Skin Cancer,
After years of delving deep into DNA and researching ways in which metal damage may lead to cancer, a team of researchers is taking a step back to look at the surface where one answer may have been all along.Continue reading
NIH awards BAI, Mayo $8.3 million on continued study of the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease at older ages
Health Canada Approves ABRAXANE® Plus Gemcitabine for First-Line Treatment of Patients with Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
High unmet need addressed with first new approved treatment in eighteen yearsContinue reading
Biodesign’s Arntzen using tobacco as a way to make and deliver a promising vaccine for the Ebola virus
Charlie Arntzen has worked tirelessly on new platforms to deliver vaccines. He has focused on plant-based vaccine delivery systems, testing a wide range of plants as possible “manufacturing platforms” for vaccines for the developing world.Continue reading