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EMERGING TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY SECTORS
Life Sciences
For the last two years, Arizona has matched the growth rate of NIH funding of the top 10 states (Battelle, Arizona Bioscience Roadmap: Measuring Progress).
The medical devices industry is Arizona’s largest non-clinical bioscience sector (Battelle, Development and Investment Prospectus to Create a Sustainable Systems Industry in Arizona).
The Translational Genomics Research Institute is responsible for a genome scan of 6,000 genetic samples of individuals with autism from around the world as part of a first-ever global autism study. (TGen: www.tgen.org).
C-Path, (Critical Path Institute), a partnership among the University of Arizona, SRI International and the US Food & Drug Administration, focuses on enabling the pharmaceutical industry to safely accelerate the process for developing new medications (C-Path: www.c-path.org).
UA College of Medicine - Phoenix and the Phoenix Biomedical Campus, scheduled to open in July 2006, are expected to have an overall economic impact of $1.1 billion to $2.1 billion each year by 2025.
The Arizona Board of Regents approved a new bioscience institute at Northern Arizona University focusing on translational research, the Strategic Alliance for bioscience Research and Education (SABRE).
National Institute of Health’s funding to Arizona increased by 30% matching the annual growth rate of the top-10 states (Flinn Foundation: www.flinn.org).
Among the National Institutes of Health’s grants to Arizona are: $14.8 million to the Biodesign Institute at ASU to develop a pediatric pneumonia vaccine; $21.6 million for UA’s Arizona Cancer Center for colon cancer studies with Mayo Clinic, TGen and others; $15 million for TGen on pancreatic cancers; and $8.5 million for NAU and TGen to study two deadly diseases (Flinn Foundation: www.flinn.org).
Since 2003, life-science related jobs increased by 11.8% and firms by 6.6%. The hospitals and labs sector continues to drive employment, while the research and testing sector makes encouraging gains, and the medical device sector anchors the state’s industry (Flinn Foundation: www.flinn.org).
Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)
In 2005, Bio-IT World Magazine named TGen among the grand-prize winners of its third annual Best Practices Awards Program. TGen was recognized for combining the leading microarray technology of Affymetrix and gene discovery software from Silicon Genetics to develop an industrial-style genotyping pipeline that has led to the rapid localization and identification of dozens of disease genes.
The Translational Genomics Research Institute is responsible for a genome scan of 6,000 genetic samples of individuals with autism from around the world as part of a first-ever global autism study.
To help usher in a new era of molecular diagnostics and personalized medicine, ASU's Biodesign Institute and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have teamed up to establish the Center for Systems and Computational Biology. One of the first of its kind in the nation, the new center will accelerate the pace of biomedical research, directly impact patient care and provide new funding opportunities for both TGen and ASU.
Sustainable Systems
In 2005, Governor Janet Napolitano announced the creation of the Arizona Water Institute, a major partnership initiative that includes Arizona’s three public universities, government agencies and the private sector.
Environmental Portfolio Standard requirements are driving Arizona’s major utilities (SRP, APS, TEP) to install solar power plants at a fast pace (National Renewable Energy Laboratory: www.nrel.gov).
More than 900 companies provide sustainable systems products/services, with an employment base of about 24,000 (Battelle, Development and Investment Prospectus to Create a Sustainable Systems Industry in Arizona).
Scottsdale Water Campus is the largest facility in the nation to treat wastewater to drinking water standards using micro-filtration and reverse osmosis technologies (Battelle, Development and Investment Prospectus to Create a Sustainable Systems Industry in Arizona).
The Water Quality Improvement Center (WQIC) in Yuma is the largest desalination system in the United States (Battelle, Development and Investment Prospectus to Create a Sustainable Systems Industry in Arizona).
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