Research Collaboration Opportunities

• BIO5 is at the core of UA’s efforts to pursue state-of-the-art biological research. It is a collaborative bioresearch institute bringing together scientists from 5 disciplines – agriculture, medicine, pharmacy, basic science and engineering – to solve complex biological problems. For more information, visit www.bio5.org.
• BIO5 Oro Valley is the University of Arizona’s translational drug discovery and development center. The facility seeks partnerships with research groups having strength in biology and novel targets desiring to collaborate with our chemistry in a drug discovery program, as well as partnerships with industry needing to fill a drug development pipeline with novel chemistries, chemotypes, leads, screening or targets. The BIO5 OV Accelerator provides space for growing early stage companies seeking a base of operations in the dynamic Oro Valley bioindustry hub. Visit http://bio5.org/orovalley for more information.
• The National Science Foundation has awarded $50 million dollars to the UA-led research team for the iPlant Collaborative – a global center and computer cyberinfrastructure within which scientists can solve biology’s greatest challenges.
• The UA College of Optical Sciences is one of the world’s leading teaching and research centers in optics. A variety of interdisciplinary efforts are ongoing at UA to develop optics-based medical instrumentation and nanotechnology.
• The UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is home to nationally-ranked programs in plant genetics and genomics, and includes the Arizona Genomics Institute.
• Arizona Research Laboratories (ARL) participating faculty generate in excess of $100M annually in research, largely as a consequence of ARL’s support of interdisciplinary and collaborative interactions that generate knowledge for the future.

• The Arizona Health Sciences Center is home to the state’s colleges of medicine, nursing, pharmacy and public health. AHSC is recognized for its research Centers of Excellence including the Sarver Heart Center, Arizona Cancer Center, Arizona Respiratory Center and the Center for Phytomedicine Research.

• The Critical Path Institute is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to creating research and education programs in order to help the FDA improve the medical product development process.
• The Institute serves as a "neutral ground" for scientists from the FDA, academia and the pharmaceutical industry to streamline and accelerate the development of safe medical products.

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