Innovative Startup Paramium Technologies Wins University of Arizona Center for Innovation Sponsored Launch Fueled by R&A CPAs

The University of Arizona Center for Innovation (UACI) is pleased to announce the winni

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Oro Valley Incubator Opens

The University of Arizona Center for Innovation at Oro Valley - an incubator focused on supporting bioscience startups - has officially opened its doors

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Local startup combines technology and life sciences for a new method of vaccines

Jeff Gardner

Tucson Local Media

Tucson’s biotech industry is growing more robust with Reparvi, a startup company that is looking to combine biology, engineering, and machine learning for powerful new vaccines.

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UA unveils Center for Innovation at Oro Valley

Jeff Gardner

Tucson Local Media

After breaking ground in September 2019, the University of Arizona’s Center for Innovation at Oro Valley hosted an open house last week, showing off their 4,000 feet of new lab space for local biotechnology startups.

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Building Tucson Businesses: The Silicon Desert

Special to the Arizona Daily Star

Eleven years ago, a senior vice president of IBM asked a fresh out of University of Arizona, early-tenure employee with multiple undergraduate degrees and an MBA why she wanted to be a part of IBM. Out of a bundle of nerves, the employee gave an answer that spoke volumes: “Working here is like being in a great big candy store. You just have to be careful to not eat too much.”

That employee was Calline Sanchez, and she is now the IBM vice president of worldwide systems lab services and technical universities. The senior vice president who asked the question was Ginni Rometty, and she is now the CEO of IBM.

Fast-forward to today and some quick facts: IBM is 40 years in the Tucson marketplace. They are an anchor tenant at the University of Arizona’s Tech Park (IBM used to own the property and sold it to UA in 1994).

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Greater Tucson Leadership Honors 3 Community Leaders

Arizona Daily Star

Greater Tucson Leadership has revealed its picks for the 2017 Tucson Man and Woman of the Year as well as the winner of the Founders Award.

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