08/25/2008 | W. L. Gore & Associates, which operates in an astonishing variety of industries, is a major force in the biosciences in Arizona. Flagstaff's largest private employer, thanks to its medical-devices facilities there, Gore has single-handedly made the city an industry hub. Now this exceptional company, which already has 20 percent of its workforce in Arizona, is doubling down to establish a new medical-devices campus in Phoenix.

08/27/2008 | Over eight years as dean of the University of Missouri-Columbia's College of Medicine, William Crist more than doubled both the size of his school's faculty and its budget. He will be charged with accomplishing a similar task--plus many others--when he assumes the new position of vice president for health affairs at the University of Arizona on Oct. 31.

07/23/2008 | Gov. Janet Napolitano has announced that her office, with an array of public and private partners, is forming a new organization to strengthen STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education in Arizona. Better STEM education is widely recognized as fundamental to establishing a globally competitive bioscience sector.

07/18/2008 | George Poste, director of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, will be leaving his current position, ASU has announced, to lead an even broader effort in interdisciplinary scientific research. As chief scientist for ASU's new Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative, Dr. Poste will steer research projects in such fields as synthetic biology, sensor technologies, and healthcare informatics.

07/17/2008 | The Arizona Economic Resource Organization (AERO), a nonprofit group created last year to coordinate the state's economic-development efforts, has received $325,000 to launch a "fund of funds" to commercialize high-technology innovations. The initiative's planners believe it could elicit $200 million in new venture-capital funding for Arizona-based entrepreneurs.