Ventana Medical Systems News

Jon Faiz Kayyem, the founder of Clinical Micro Sensors, and the inventor of the Osmetech eSensor technology, was named vice chairman, effective 1 July.

While the daily headlines scream of mass layoffs, there are still jobs to be had locally a ' if you have the right skills.

A request from Oro Valley Mayor Paul Loomis for an increase in his travel budget prompted some heated discussion at last week's Town Council meeting.

Roche's hostile bid for Genentech Inc., which became official late Monday, revealed just how far apart the companies are on valuing Genentech, with the biotechnology pioneer at one point asking for $112 per ...

A week after the Arizona Legislature drained $22.5 million from its budget, Science Foundation Arizona's future may hinge on whether it can persuade state lawmakers to find new money for the startup-research ...

We hope that Arizona legislators didn't understand what they were doing when they sliced $22.5 million intended for Science Foundation Arizona from the 2009 budget.

Roche Holding AG , whose $43.7 billion bid to buy all of Genentech Inc. in July was rejected, lowered the acquisition price by 2.8 percent and took the offer for the cancer-drug maker directly to shareholders.

The Arizona Board of Regent meeting Thursday looked more like a public protest than a board meeting.

More than 800 students, parents and business leaders packed the Arizona Board of Regents meeting at the UA student union this afternoon to protest potential university budget cuts.

Legislative leaders have proposed an unprecedented, and what UA President Robert Shelton has called an "ill-conceived," mid-year budget cut of $243 million dollars to Arizona's three universities.

A medical equipment company operating in Arizona has sued Watlow Electric Manufacturing Co., alleging the company sold it more than $1 million worth of defective heater cap assemblies that were made in 2007 by ...

During this season, we all start to realize that another year has come and gone and that all that remains are the memories.

Oro Valley-based Ventana Medical Systems Inc., has filed a federal civil suit against the manufacturer of a component used in one of its top-selling instruments.

Science Foundation Arizona awarded a $9 million grant to Critical Path Institute in the hope of helping biotech and pharmaceutical companies get their drugs to market sooner and less expensively.

A microscope product developed at Oro Valley's Ventana Medical Systems is being used at Northwest Medical Center to detect breast cancer in its early stage.

A contractor for HJ3 Composite Technologies saturates carbon fiber material used to wrap and repair a corroded 100-foot-tall tank in this 2006 file photo.