11 Jul City of Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona is the 5th largest city in the U.S. and the fastest growing over the last decade. CBRE ranks Phoenix 5th in the Nation among Emerging Life Science Markets, 1st in Life Science Job Growth in those markets and 1st in Life Science Graduate Growth Rate in 2020, 2021 and 2023 respectively. Arizona ranks 9th in the nation for clinical trials. Phoenix offers a deep talent base, a critical mass of serial biopreneurs, globally recognized companies and institutes of research excellence to turn discovery into firms and products for preventing, early detection, treating and curing disease. Four major bioscience hubs:
- Mayo Clinic’s Discovery Oasis
- Phoenix Medical Quarter/Midtown
- Phoenix Bioscience Core
- The Cotton Center
Phoenix is setting the standard for technology and precision medicine driving translational discovery in areas of genomics, precision medicine, new therapy development, oncology, neuroscience, rare disease, bioinformatics and artificial intelligence.
