When President Obama delivers the State of the Union address on Tuesday, he’ll be speaking to a polarized Congress where brinksmanship is the order of the day. If lawmakers don’t act by March 1, budget sequestration will slash funding for biomedical research and oversight of the nation’s food and drug products. Continue reading
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ABOR Supports Budget Plan, University Funding Request
Resolution supports increased finacial contributions by the state to fund resarch and medical education programsContinue reading
Arizona bioscience jobs continue rapid growth during economic recovery
Arizona’s bioscience sector added jobs at nearly four times the national rate over the past decade and experienced double-digit job growth during the economic recovery, according to a new report from Battelle Technology Partnership Practice that outlines the 2012 progress of Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap.Continue reading
Decades of Progress with More to Come
Over four decades ago, President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act and the “War on Cancer” was engaged. Now as we look at the progress that has been made and the progress yet to come, executives from PhRMA share the recent results of a study released on over 5000 new drugs in the biopharma pipeline that are taking us forward in the war against cancer and other diseases.Continue reading
Oro Valley Team Uses Technology to Speed Drug Discovery
UA College of Pharmacy researchers at the UA’s BIO5 Oro Valley facility are working to quicken the process of drug-discovery evaluationContinue reading
TGen/GW microbiology and environmental health expert Dr. Lance Price appointed to federal food-safety panel
NACMCF makes policy recommendations to President Obama’s CabinetContinue reading
One Way Out: Health Care and The Innovation Pathway
Health care, or more specifically how we will pay for health care now and in the years to come, is once again on center stage as budget talks continue to stalemate in Washington and clock ticks on towards the sequestration deadline. Perhaps its time to look for a new solution…Continue reading
UA News Reports A Boost for Analyzing Biological Sequences
UA computer scientists John Kececioglu and Dan DeBlasio are developing improved software that provides biologists with much more accurate results when analyzing sequence data.Continue reading
BioCentury this week looks at Medicare- 150 Ideas: Will Any of Them Work?
The nation is heading toward budget sequestration. For Medicare, this means a 2 percent spending cut.
But that’s just a down payment. Any serious attempt to tackle the U.S. deficit must curb the increase in Medicare and Medicaid spending.
Now, the Kaiser Family Foundation has issued a report listing 150 ideas to tackle the problem. The problem: Almost all of them would hurt someone — either by directly limiting access to healthcare, or reducing payments to hospitals, physicians or drug companiesContinue reading
Applications Open for the Spring 2013 Arizona Innovation Challenge (AIC) on February 12, 2013
The Ariziona Commerce Authority is pleased to announce the opening of the submission window for the Spring 2013 Arizona Innovation Challenge (AIC) on February 12, 2013. On or before that day, the Application – Download & Submission page will be updated, and you will be able to download an application, complete it, and then submit it by March 19th. The Arizona Innovation Challenge awards the most money in the country for a business plan competition!Continue reading