David Larwood, CEO, Valley Fever Solutions Bringing new compounds and diagnostics to help detect and treat Valley Fever. VFS has received good support from government grants, and collaborates closely with the Valley Fever Center for Excellence, vfce.arizona.edu. We are moving towards Phase II trials in humans of Nikkomycin-Z, a compound that shows great promise in treating humans or animals infected with Valley Fever.

CEI, the Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation, is a community-based incubation facility at GateWay Community College.

The Arizona Health Sciences Center at the University of Arizona The Arizona Health Sciences Center (AHSC) at the University of Arizona is a network of health-related organizations and activities unique in the state and region. Arizona’s only academic health sciences center, AHSC is based on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson and maintains a growing presence on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus in downtown Phoenix. From these vantage points, AHSC reaches across the state of Arizona and well beyond its borders to provide health-care education, research, patient care and service for Arizonans and their neighbors today and for the future.

Tom Sadvary, President and CEO of Scottsdale Healthcare, shares his view of the Scottsdale Cure Corridor.  Introduction by Don Henninger, Publisher of the Phoenix Business Journal. 

Dr. Ray DuBois , M.D., Ph.D. Dr. DuBois is a world-renowned physician-scientist who has devoted his career to understanding the linkages between inflammation and cancer, particularly colon cancer. He assumed his new role as Executive Director of the Biodesign Institute in December of 2012, coming by way of Houston as provost of the prestigious M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Tour the newest addition to the Phoenix Biomedical Campus - the Health Sciences Education Building. This spectacular copper-faced structure will play a critical role in the education of the next generation of science and health professionals. The 268,000 square-foot building is home to the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University health sciences programs.

A dream come true for downtown Phoenix; Building a new medical school For six local doctors, the creation of what is now one of the newest medical colleges in the nation seemed a distant dream. These seasoned professionals have invested many years, personal and professional commitment, expertise and downright tenacity, to make this campus and this college a reality. All contributed from their respective fields and their respective hospitals. All were teachers and saw the need for the development of the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix. Read more at: http://phoenixmed.arizona.edu

Dr. Robert Bowser was recruited to the Barrow Neurological Institute and St. Joseph’s Hospital & Medical Center to direct an ALS research center using philanthropic support from Mr. Ira Fulton.   He arrived to the Phoenix area in August of last year after 18 years on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.  Dr. Bowser’s research focuses on biomarkers of neurologic disease and he will describe how success in his academic research has also led to success in the world of biotechnology.

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