Three innovative and ground-breaking companies were honored by the Arizona Bioindustry Association at the AZBio Awards on Sept. 17 as AZBio Fast Lane Award honorees. The companies honored were:

• Cancer Prevention Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is developing novel therapeutic agents, diagnostics, and lifestyle recommendations that make possible the treatment of risk factors for cancer.

• Pinnacle Transplant Technologies, Inc. manufactures innovative allografts produced to the highest standards of quality and safety and a dedication to being the most responsive and accommodating Tissue Bank in the industry.

• SenesTech is a biotech platform and research company that has developed an innovative technology for managing animal populations by fertility control that are non-lethal treatments that have the potential to be more effective, more humane, and less invasive to the environment than traditional management methods.