The bioscience & health care industry in Arizona accounts for 325,405 direct jobs employed at 25,595 establishments. (Emsi 2017.2 QEW and non-QCEW, 2016)

National Institutes of Health grant funding awarded to Arizona companies exceeded $163 million in 2016. (NIH, 2016)

Arizona bioscience & healthcare industry core competencies include: cancer research, neurosciences, bioengineering, precision medicine, diagnostics, and health IT.

Notable employers in the bioscience & healthcare sector include: W.L. Gore, Ventana-Roche Medical Systems, Translational Genomics (TGen), McKesson, Banner Health, Mayo Clinic, Arizona Cancer Center, and Dexcom.

In 2016, Arizona's Translational Genomics Research Institute merged with California-based nonprofit City of Hope. The combined organization covers the bench-to-bedside continuum of care, creating precision approaches to disease prevention and treatment.

The 220,000-square-foot, five-story, $100 million University of Arizona Cancer Center at Dignity Health St. Joseph's is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center located in Phoenix. 

The University of Arizona Cancer Center is one of just 45 comprehensive cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute.

The University of Arizona is the lead institute in the Regional Algal Feedstock Testbed partnership, which in late 2013 was awarded an $8 million grant to fund a four-year project intended to fine tune the group’s proprietary algae farming system.

In 2014, Sethuraman "Panch" Panchanathan, ASU’s senior vice president of the Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development, was named to the National Science Board, a 25-member board that directs policy related to science, technology and engineering in the U.S.

The Biomedical Sciences Partnership Building, a 10-story, $136 million University of Arizona research building on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus in downtown Phoenix will house researchers with a myriad of backgrounds — such as flow cytometry, physics, materials science, electrical and mechanical engineering, chemistry, biology and nanotechnology.

Medical device manufacturing, bioscience-related distribution, and research & testing are the largest non-hospital bioscience industry subsectors in Arizona.

The average wage paid to persons in the bioscience & health care industry was $57,788 in 2016. (Emsi 2017.2 QEW and non-QCEW)

Bioscience-related academic research and development expenditures in 2012 were $463 million which was 1.13% of the U.S. total. (Flinn Foundation, 2014)

In April 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency announced research grants to ASU and UCSB to better understand the impacts of chemicals and nanomaterials throughout their life cycle - from design to manufacture, use and disposal. (EPA)

The Critical Path Institute, a partnership among the University of Arizona, SRI International and the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, focuses on enabling the pharma industry to safely accelerate the process for developing new medications.