PBC News
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CoLab Meeting from 7/16/25
Held at 850 Phoenix Bioscience Core (PBC) in the Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation (CEI) space, lab managers, techs, and operators share resources, solve problems, and drive innovation across the PBC ecosystem. CoLab is focusing on relationship building, peer-to-peer sharing, supporting and accepting help, learning something new, identifying shared assets, and sparking collaborations. The most recent…
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Governor Hobbs Announces Arizona Tech Week 2026
State’s first-ever decentralized tech conference will showcase Arizona’s technology leadership With billions in new investment, a surge of startups and venture activity, and a deep pool of skilled talent, Arizona’s innovation economy is scaling fast — and the world is taking notice. Today, Governor Hobbs and the Arizona Commerce Authority, in partnership with the Arizona…
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Connecting biology to better heart treatments
2025 Phoenix KEYS intern Adi Tyagi (he/him) studied how female and male heart tissue reacts to stress and inflammation in the lab of Taben Hale. 2025 Phoenix KEYS intern Adi Tyagi (right) from Chaparral High School worked with postdoctoral researcher Ashton Jorgensen (left) and research specialist Dana Floyd (right) to understand how high blood pressure…
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Dr. Samuel Galvagno Joins the College as Chair and Tenured Professor of Anesthesiology
Dr. Galvagno is a practicing anesthesiologist who also specializes in critical care medicine. An accomplished scientist, physician and leader, he will help build the academic Anesthesia department Samuel M. Galvagno, DO, PhD, MS, MBA, FCCM, has officially assumed his roles as chair of and tenured professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix.…
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Study reveals impact of undiagnosed endometriosis on young women, girls
Early onset endometriosis is often dismissed, ASU researchers find, causing physical and emotional distress ASU researchers found that many young women and girls who have endometriosis — some as young as 8 — are dismissed or misdiagnosed for years due to their age. Photo courtesy of iStock/Getty Images A new study has uncovered the prevalence of undiagnosed…
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Leadership in Personalized Medicine Awarded to George Poste, D.V.M., Ph.D.
We are pleased to announce that George Poste, DVM, PhD, Regents Professor and Del E. Webb Chair in Health Innovation and Chief Scientist, Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative at Arizona State University, will receive the 2025 Award for Leadership in Personalized Medicine at this year’s Personalized Medicine Conference, to be held November 13–14 at the Ritz…
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Thomas Maynard Appointed Interim CEO of GPEC
Search committee names organization’s Senior Vice President, Business Development as temporary leader The Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC) announced today it has appointed Thomas Maynard as Interim Chief Executive Officer, effective August 2, as recommended by the board-led search committee and approved by executive committee members, following the tenure of Chris Camacho as President and…
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Inside KEYS 2025 and the next generation of Arizona science
Armed with curiosity and lab coats, the 2025 Class of the KEYS Research Internship didn’t just observe science; they shaped it. Read 12 of their stories. 2025 Tuscon KEYS intern Azani Anderson helps collect plant root samples at the University Arizona Campus Agricultural Center. Lily Howe, BIO5 Institute Through the BIO5 Institute’s KEYS Research Internship this…
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Meet the Flinn Scholars joining NAU’s Class of 2029
Two of Arizona’s best and brightest are headed to Flagstaff this fall to become Lumberjacks—Cianna Brooks and Grace Smithson. The two top achievers are part of the 20-person class of 2025 Flinn Scholars, a coveted merit-based award that covers eight semesters of tuition, fees, housing and meals and even provides funds for study abroad and professional development. Brooks…
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ASU teams up with Phoenix Children’s to help kids with painful inflammatory bowel diseases
Study uses bacteria to help doctors find better ways to diagnose Graphic by Richard Holland/ASU About 2.7 million people in the U.S. live with inflammatory bowel diseases, which cause long-term inflammation in the digestive system. The number of children diagnosed with these conditions, like Crohn’s disease, is rising faster than in adults, but the reasons…
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