What bioscience-related innovations have been achieved by Arizonans?
Arizona has been the home to national and international innovations in the biosciences. Recently, the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University was recognized for its innovative work on HIV/AIDS vaccines and treatments. TGen, in its brief tenure, has accounted for several significant genomic discoveries. University of Arizona researchers participated in international efforts that successfully mapped the rice and corn genomes. Northern Arizona University houses one of the largest pathogen-related genomics research centers in the world. Sun Health Research Institute in Sun City has one of the world’s largest brain banks, and tissue banking statewide continues to gain prominence: International Genomics Consortium, in collaboration with TGen, was selected from over 370 applicants nationwide to create a national tissue bank of cancer tumor specimens for The Cancer Genome Atlas Project (TCGA); and Barrow Neurological Institute (BNI) has established the Human Specimen Procurement Servic
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