Arizona Bioscience Week: Stories You Should Know from the Phoenix Bioscience Core

What is now a thriving 30-acre life science and innovation hub on the east side of Downtown, the Phoenix Bioscience Core was initially assembled as land by Phoenix Community Alliance and the then-Downtown Phoenix Partnership for a potential site for Arizona Cardinals stadium in the early 2000s.The Phoenix Bioscience Core is a collection of Arizona’s three major universities — Arizona State University (ASU), University of Arizona (UArizona), and Northern Arizona University (NAU) — three of the five major hospital systems, and a mixture of public and private research all clustered under the same