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 Healthy Parks Mean Healthy Citizens!
Phoenix Community Alliance (PCA) is the first organization to adopt a City of Phoenix park under the Parks & Recreation Department's new My Phoenix-My Park volunteer program. On Saturday morning, January 16, 2010, nearly 200 volunteers worked to clean up, rake, chop, and bag trash at the Steele Indian School Park. For this inaugural event, PCA teamed with Hands On Greater Phoenix and will do so again on March 27 to continue to make the park a clean and healthy place for everyone. If you are interested in helping, contact Lupe Andow at 602.254.7477 for more information.
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Bioscience is on the Map in Arizona
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What's a three-letter word for economic development? In Arizona, the latest data say
that the answer is bio.
At a trio of updates on Arizona's Bioscience Roadmap,
experts in Phoenix, Flagstaff, and Tucson called attention to the
exceptional growth that the biosciences have shown in terms of jobs,
firms, and wages since the 2002 release of the Roadmap, a long-term
plan to make Arizona a national hub for bioscience research and
commercial activity.
"We
have put bioscience on the map, said Martin Shultz, chairman of the
Steering Committee for the Roadmap, in the East Valley Tribune. Read more >>
Above: Walter Plosila, senior advisor to the Battelle Technology Partnership Practice, which tracks numerous metrics for the Roadmap. Photo by Steven Toya, NAU Public Affairs.
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Phoenix Biomedical Campus in the News
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 | Joint Committee on Capital Review to Meet
The Arizona Board of Regents may be a step closer to building the $187 million Health Sciences Education Building on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus.
The expansion was approved twice by the Arizona Legislature and
signed by the governor but was held up pending review by the Joint
Committee on Capital Review. The committee doesn't need to approve the
project; it just needs to review it before ground can be broken.
The committee has scheduled a meeting for March 23. The agenda also
includes review of general obligation bond project changes for Maricopa
Community College District and is scheduled to begin at 8 am in House
Hearing Room 4 at the Arizona Legislature. Read the full story in the Phoenix Business Journal >> Stimulus Funds Provide $15 Million GrantThe National Institutes of Health has awarded a $15 million grant to
build lab support facilities, immediately creating at least 250 jobs,
as part of the planned expansion of the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix in partnership with Arizona State University. "This
grant will allow us to build a shared resource facility supporting all
the great life-saving research going on at the Phoenix Biomedical
Campus," said Dr. William M. Crist, vice president for health affairs
for the University of Arizona. "The NIH has acknowledged that our
research in cardiovascular, cancer and neurological areas is critical
to the development of the biomedical campus." The Phoenix
Biomedical Campus is host to the medical college (an expansion of the
UA College of Medicine in Tucson), ASU's department of biomedical
informatics, and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). Read more >>University of Arizona Acquires Land Across from Biomedical CampusThe University of Arizona
paid $9.85 million for 2.6 acres across the street from the Phoenix
Biomedical Campus, where it already is planning more than $300 million
in expansion projects. Having the additional space will give UA more options for developing biomedical facilities as part of the campus. The downtown Phoenix property, which includes a vacant
33,000-square-foot biomedical building, sits on the northeast corner of
Van Buren and Seventh streets. UA is planning to develop a $140 million cancer center on or near
the Phoenix Biomedical Campus, and it is working with the other two
state universities to build a $187 million Health Sciences Education
Building on the campus. The campus already houses the UA College of Medicine-Phoenix, in
partnership with Arizona State University, as well as the headquarters
of the Translational Genomics Research Institute. Read the full story in the Phoenix Business Journal >>
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ASU Biodesign Institute "Biotech Talk" at Arizona Science Center:
"Fact of Fat? The Gut-wrenching Truth About Obesity"
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Obesity
affects around four million Americans. What makes some people skinny and
others fat?
Local scientists from the Biodesign Institute at ASU, in
collaboration with Mayo Clinic Arizona and the University of Arizona, are looking into the tiny organisms that live in the human gut for some
answers. Hear about a comparison from a molecular survey of the human
gut inhabitants in obese individuals, normal-weight individuals, and
patients who had gastric bypass. The results may hold a key to one
cause of obesity--and the prospect of future treatment.
This lecture will take place April 21 from 5:30-7:00 pm and is part of the Arizona Science Center's Adult's Night Out series. For more information >>
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TGen Finalizes Alliance with Michigan-based Research Institute
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The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) announced the completion of a strategic alliance and affiliation agreement with the Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) that will maximize the research capabilities of both nonprofit institutes. TGen expects the agreement to create a robust basic-science-to-translational delivery platform aimed at developing new tests and treatments for patient benefit.
TGen remains an Arizona-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit biomedical research organization, headquartered in Phoenix with an Arizona-centric board. VARI, based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, will be the organization's sole member.
Since making an initial alliance announcement in February 2009, TGen worked with key Arizona partners to ratify any needed changes to funding or research agreements, including the Flinn Foundation, the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, the Arizona Board of Regents, a number of the Valley's healthcare providers, and the State of Arizona.
The TGen-VARI alliance already has yielded significant benefits for Arizona by helping TGen secure
a number of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). TGen's 12 ARRA grants total $18.9 million. Based on U.S. Department of Commerce economic models, TGen's economic-stimulus funding could result in as much as $41.9 million in new business activity.
The economic impact includes projects at TGen's headquarters in Phoenix, its operations in Scottsdale and Flagstaff, its partners at Arizona State University, the University of Arizona, and Northern Arizona University, as well as collaborating research institutes and universities across the U.S., including VARI. Read more >>
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Phoenix Children's Hospital Expansion: Doing It for the Kids
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In December 2009, Phoenix Children's Hospital (PCH) expansion reached its half-way mark toward full completion by November 2010. A short (2:51) video on the PCH website shows construction progress and discusses why the expansion is so important for the hospital and its young patients. Did you know that this construction site employs 1,000 people over two shifts? Watch the video >> |
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The Phoenix Community Alliance is a coalition of over 200 business
leaders allied with individuals who lead government, cultural
organizations, educational and faith institutions, and with other
stakeholders in Phoenix's central city. If you are interested in becoming a member of the Phoenix Community Alliance, please contact JoMarie McDonald at 602.254.7477 ext 22 or jomarie@phoenixcommunityalliance.com.
If your organization has a story or initiative that you would like featured, please contact the newsletter editor. We hope that you will support our effort by forwarding this publication to your contacts and spreading the word about the progress and vitality of the health and bioscience industry in Phoenix.
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