AZ Bio Week & Life Sciences Innovation w/ Joan Koerber-Walker - AZ TRT S05 EP36 (252) 9-16-2024

AZ Bio Week & Life Sciences Innovation w/ Joan Koerber-Walker

- AZ TRT S05 EP36 (252) 9-16-2024

 

Things We Learned This Week

• AZ Bio mission to improve life and bioscience, & make AZ a Top Ten Bioscience state
• AZ Bio Week 2023 is Sep. 16, 5 Days Talks, Events & Awards
• 3 Ds - Discovery, Development, & Delivery - takes years, and $ billions to bring new drugs to market
• Their company members deal with diseases, medical devices & cancer research to cure it
• Combo of Gov't & Private Funding, University research & private company work

 

 

Guest: Joan Koerber-Walker
President and CEO, AZBio - Arizona Bioindustry Association, Inc.

Chairman, Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation

 

LKIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joankoerberwalker

 www.azbio.org

Bio:

As President and CEO of AZBio, Joan Koerber-Walker works on behalf of the Arizona Bioscience and Medical Technology Industry to support the growth of the industry, its members and our community on the local and national level. Ms. Koerber-Walker is also a life science investor and has served on the boards of numerous for-profit and non-profit organizations.

 

 

 

In the life science industry, Ms. Koerber-Walker serves as as Arizona’s representative to the State Medical Technology Alliance (SMTA), a consortium of state and regional trade associations representing their local medical technology companies which she chaired in 2015 and  represents Arizona as a member of the Council of State Bioscience Associations (CSBA) and the Coalition of State Bioscience Institutes (CSBI).

Active in the entrepreneurial and investment communities, she also serves as Chairman of the Board of the Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation which provides entrepreneurial education, mentoring and support to at-risk members of the community, on the Board of Advisors to CellTrust, Inc. which provides secure communication technology to the healthcare industry, and as Chairman of CorePurpose, Inc. which she founded in 2002.

Ms. Koerber-Walker has been recognized as Executive of the Year by the Arizona Society of Association Executives, as a “Most Admired Leader” by the Phoenix Business Journal (2015),  in the pages of AZ Business Leaders (2013 thru 2020), Most Influential Women in Arizona Business (2014) and is a 2 time National Finalist for the Stevie Award which recognizes the work of women in business.

Her past experience includes two years as the CEO of ASBA (the Arizona Small Business Association), service as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Small Business Association in Washington D.C., President of the National Speakers Association/Arizona, Chair of the Board of Advisors to Parenting Arizona, the state’s largest child abuse prevention organization, & much more.

 

 

AZBio:  Supporting Arizona’s Life Science Industry for 19 Years (2003 – 2022)

Learn more about Arizona's bioindustry: www.azbio.org

| Facebook: AZBIO |Twitter: @AZBio @AZBioCEO

We’re part of a movement to create sustainable funding for life science innovation in Arizona.

Learn more at www.AZAdvances.org 

MOVING LIFE SCIENCE INNOVATIONS ALONG THE PATH
FROM DISCOVERY TO DEVELOPMENT TO DELIVERY

OUR VISION OF THE FUTURE: Arizona is a top-ten life science state.

OUR MISSION: AZBio supports the needs of Arizona’s growing life science ecosystem.

The Arizona Bioindustry Association (AZBio) is a not-for-profit, 501(c)6 trade association supporting the growth of Arizona’s life science sector.

AZBio  Member Organizations in the fields of business, research and education, health care delivery, economic development, government, and other professions involved in the biosciences are the key drivers of the growth of Arizona’s life science sector.  As the unified voice of our industry in Arizona, AZBio strives to make Arizona a place where bioscience organizations can grow and succeed.

 

AZBio works nationally and globally with the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), the Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA), the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), and leading patient advocacy organizations.

Through these relationships, AZBio has access to information, contacts, resources, cost saving programs, and the global bioscience and medtech community.

 

Arizona’s bioscience industry is growing rapidly and reached nearly 30,000 jobs spanning 2,160 business establishments in 2018. Industry employment has grown by 15 percent since 2016—twice the growth rate of the nation—with each of the five major subsectors adding jobs during the period. Arizona’s universities conducted nearly $580 million in R&D activities in bioscience-related fields in 2018, fueled in part by steadily increasing NIH awards to Arizona institutions since 2016. Venture capital investments in Arizona bioscience companies increased in 2019, and during the 2016-19 period totaled $349 million. Arizona inventors have been awarded 2,178 bioscience-related patents since 2016, among the second quintile of states in patent activity.

 

 

Notes:

 

Seg 1

 

Biotech and life sciences industry in Arizona, has 3000 businesses and 36,000 employees. The economic impact in 2021 was $38.5 billion. AZ Bio would like to double, so by 2033, the impact would be $78 billion.

 

Examples of biotech companies in Arizona are Medtronic that makes medical devices, WL Gore, material sciences. Other companies in diagnostics, there are Sonoran Quest which does testing. This also Castle Bio Sciences, deals in cancer treatment. Some medicine companies are Bristol, Myers, and Calvari who deals in cancer drugs. Calvari is the bio science company of the year in 2024.

 

AZ Bio Science Week started in 2017. AZ Bio week starts September 16 and has events daily from Monday to Friday.

 

Seg 2

 

Neo clinical stage company dealing in heart health with aortic artery for the abdomen.

 

Another new company is prim dealing in MCT deficiency, compound growth and they are in clinical and testing stages.

 

Drugs get tested through computer models, and then on animals. Always have to worry about safety and ethics. FDA has very strict rules. You do not put people at risk, after monitor, during test and post monitoring. There’s high-level quality control.

 

 

https://www.azbio.org/azbw2024

 

Events Summary:

Monday - Women in Biotech

Leading Women: Biotech & Beyond

Join us for an evening of conversation and connections with our community's leading women as we kick off Arizona Bioscience Week in style!

 

Tuesday - Fundraising

Fundraising Strategies for Life Science Startups 

A compelling narrative is crucial when you are fundraising and communicating with life science investors. 

This Life Science Nation (LSN) Global Fundraising Bootcamp covers topics related to executing a successful fundraise for your startup. 

 

 

Wednesday – AZ Bio awards, philanthropy, entertainment, and AZ Advances

The 20th Annual AZBio Awards & AZAdvances After Party

Celebrate with the Educators, Researchers, and Organizations that are making life better for people in Arizona and around the world. 

Join us at the Phoenix Convention Center as we honor the 2024 AZBio Award Winners.

Hundreds of health innovators and business leaders will be celebrating at the 20th Annual AZBio Awards.

 

Thursday- White Hat Investor

White Hat Life Science Investor Conference

White Hat Investors 2024 showcases exciting biotech and medtech companies from across the Rocky Mountain & Southwest Region.

Friday - Voice of the Patient, Bridge Cures Event

Voice of the Patient

Patients are the reason we do what we do. 

Join the conversation on life science innovation from the patient perspective. 

Ponte Cura: The Bridge to Cures

Ponte Cura is a special donor appreciation event for the people and organizations supporting the Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation AZAdvances Initiative

 

AZ Advances:

Arizonans are advancing life changing and life saving innovations along the path from discovery to development to delivery.

AZAdvances is developing the funding that will help advance health innovations in Arizona today and for generations to come. 

Charitable donations to the AZAdvances fund at the Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation, an Arizona based 501c3 public charity, are a way to support the creation of tomorrow's medical innovations. 

 

 

Seg. 3

 

Replay Clips from:

Preventing Cancer with a Vaccine w/ Stephen Johnston of Calviri

 

- AZ TRT S04 EP17 (179) 4-23-2023

 

Things We Learned This Week

• Calviri is working on a Vaccine to PREVENT Cancer, currently largest animal clinical trial
• Inflammation - starting points of bad cells
• Cancer - bad cells replicate
• Could Prevent other diseases & extend longevity of people's lives - ex.- help w/ dementia
• Tumors make bad proteins
• Calviri vaccine works on RNA (proteins) kills tumor, & arms immune system

 

 

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