Barton Named Vice-Chair of Arizona Bioscience Committee
The BIO5 Institute director will act as vice-chair of Arizona's Bioscience Roadmap Steering Committee, overseeing development of the state's bioscience sector.
The Flinn Foundation named BME professor Jennifer Barton the vice-chair of Arizona's Bioscience Roadmap Steering Committee.
Barton will work alongside chair Heather Carter, former vice-chair of the committee and the senior vice chancellor of external affairs for Maricopa Community Colleges, to guide the growth and development of the state's bioscience sector. In 2024, she began serving as president of SPIE, the 22,000-member international society for optics and photonics.
The committee includes about 135 Arizonans from the public and private sector in science, health care, business, academia, and policy, as well as annual awardees of the Flinn Foundation's translational research and entrepreneurship programs. The group is charged with creating a business environment and encouraging innovative partnerships that will lead to growth in the bioscience ecosystem.
Over the next 18 months, the committee's guidance will be critical in the Flinn Foundation's planned update to Arizona's Bioscience Roadmap—the first since 2014. The next version of the Roadmap is expected to be launched in 2025.
Read more about the Bioscience Roadmap here.