Tag: Phoenix Bioscience Core

  • Entrepreneur Speaker Series: Session 1

    Entrepreneur Speaker Series | A 4-week series for Arizona’s boldest founders and doers! Session 1: Must be 21+ Vision to Venture — take your big idea from spark to strategy with insights from top local leaders. Featuring: Dr. Velma Trayham – Black Chamber of Arizona Horace Raymond – Arizona Cardinals Rene Andrade – Bacanora Monique Porras Mason – The…

  • Authorpreneurship @ Coffee & Coworking

    Join us for a special edition of Coffee & Coworking featuring Author-preneurship — a creative session for anyone interested in writing or publishing a book! Connect with fellow writers, creatives and entrepreneurs. Get one-on-one support, share resources and explore our collaborative downtown space — then stay and work the rest of the day! Presented by ASU…

  • Thomas Maynard Appointed Interim CEO of GPEC

    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…

  • Inside KEYS 2025 and the next generation of Arizona science

    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…

  • Meet the Flinn Scholars joining NAU’s Class of 2029

    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…

  • ASU teams up with Phoenix Children’s to help kids with painful inflammatory bowel diseases

    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…

  • NAU Phoenix Bioscience Core Tour

    If an advanced degree in healthcare professions is your goal, you are invited to join us for a campus tour and Q+A at NAU Phoenix Bioscience Core Campus.  Immediately following your tour, you will have the opportunity to meet with the program coordinator from Athletic Training, Occupational Therapy, Physician Assistant Studies, or Physical Therapy for…

  • Study reveals a novel immune-based therapy that may be effective in hard-to-treat lung cancers

    Study reveals a novel immune-based therapy that may be effective in hard-to-treat lung cancers

    Findings suggest that the patients themselves produce molecules that could reawaken their immune system to battle lung cancer A study published today by researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), part of City of Hope, and clinician-scientists at Baylor Scott & White Research Institute revealed a potential new therapeutic strategy for fighting lung cancer that harnesses one…

  • Can AI and a smartphone improve mental health treatment?

    Can AI and a smartphone improve mental health treatment?

    A graduate student is creating AI models to analyze smartphone data and detect behavioral changes that could lead to timely intervention and treatment. (From left) Hannah Vu, a graduate student in the Zuckerman College of Public Health, and her faculty mentor, Eung-Joo Lee, PhD, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering’s Department of Electrical…

  • NAU Students training to fill gaps in healthcare | AZ Family

    NAU Students training to fill gaps in healthcare | AZ Family

    NAU’s College of Nursing was featured by AZ Family News during a recent community blood pressure clinic. Sixty first-year NAU nursing students participated in the initiative, taking blood readings for over 700 individuals over two days. This experience marked one of their first direct interactions with patients and the public, helping them build essential clinical…