What kinds of medicines are researchers working on in Arizona?
Almost everyone’s life has been touched by medicines that treat disease and cure illness. TGen in Phoenix is working on treatments for cancer, diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) and many others. The Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale studies and treats many diseases, such as epilepsy, and performs clinical trials for new treatments for diseases like breast cancer. Covance’s Arizona facility plans to test medicines, vaccines and treatments for diseases like Alzheimer’s, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, leukemia and HIV/AIDS.