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UTSA dean to receive Palmaz Award
San Antonio Express-News - By David Hendricks Mauli Agrawal, a San Antonio biomedical engineer, entrepreneur ...
AirStrip Technologies is ready for take-off
San Antonio Business Journal - W. Scott Bailey AirStrip Technologies Inc. has secured $30 million in ...
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Looking Beyond the Science: Career Advancement Strategies
HBA San Antonio Chapter - Women in ScienceSeptember 15, 20105:30 - 8:00 pmGreehey Children's Cancer Research ...Annual Julio Palmaz Award Dinner
5th Annual Award Dinner Honoring 2010 Julio Palmaz Award Recipient Dr. Mauli AgrawalSan Antonio Innovator, ...Industry Publications
The Mission
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September 9, 2010
San Antonio Express-News - By David Hendricks
Mauli Agrawal, a San Antonio biomedical engineer, entrepreneur and educator, has been chosen by BioMed SA to receive the organization's Julio Palmaz Award ... More
September 3, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal - W. Scott Bailey AirStrip
Technologies Inc. has secured $30 million in equity funding from Menlo Park, Calif.-based Sequoia Capital. Dr. Cameron Powell, president and co-founder ... More
August 24, 2010
“BIOSCIENCE BREAKTHROUGHS” TO AIR THROUGHOUT THE DAY, AUG. 30 – SEPT. 10
SAN ANTONIO, August 24, 2010 – Texas Public Radio’s KSTX 89.1 FM will air “Bioscience ... More
August 18, 2010
Nearly 300 new jobs add growth to local biosciences industry
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, has selected San Antonio as the site for its new North American ... More
August 17, 2010
Austin, TX – On Saturday, September 11, 2010, the Central Texas FIRST LEGO® League (FLL) is hosting its 2010-11 Season - Alamo Kick-off at Alamo Colleges – Northwest Vista College. The ... More
August 13, 2010
San Antonio - Karl Klose, director of The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) South Texas Center Emerging Infectious Diseases, and Bernard Arulanandam, associate dean of research for scientific ... More
August 13, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal - by W. Scott Bailey
Mauli Agrawal, who played a key role in helping to convince serial entrepreneur Mir Imran to expand his InCube Labs biomedical incubator to San Antonio, ... More
August 13, 2010
SAN ANTONIO — Dr. Ian M. Thompson Jr., M.D., professor and chair of urology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and executive director of its Cancer Therapy & Research ... More
August 10, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal
A San Antonio development stage oncology company has won a new patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to protect the intellectual property of its lead cancer drug.
GenSpera ... More
July 23, 2010
SAN ANTONIO - A $1 million grant from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) and funding from several community partners will help the UT Health Science San Antonio's School of Nursing build a new, ... More
July 15, 2010
(SAN ANTONIO) – The National Trauma Institute (NTI), a non-profit organization dedicated to funding trauma research in the United States, launched a powerful new awareness and giving campaign in ... More
July 13, 2010
SAN ANTONIO – In the largest study of its kind, researchers at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR) have found that exposure to cigarette smoke can alter gene expression -- the ... More
July 13, 2010
SAN ANTONIO – As the next step in aggressively increasing sales and growing the company’s international footprint, Vidacare Corporation has promoted Mark Mellin to Acting CEO and President ... More
June 15, 2010
San Antonio HC+B Magazine
“Made in China” may soon give way to “Discovered/Developed in China.” This was one of the eye-opening observations a small group of San Antonio ... More
June 11, 2010
InCube Labs Chairman and CEO Mir Imran during the announcement at City Hall. Photo by John Davenport
By David Hendricks ... More
June 11, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal
InCube Labs Chairman and CEO Mir Imran on Thursday joined local and state leaders in unveiling plans to open a branch of his company ... More
June 8, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal
The START Center in San Antonio has become one of 15 cancer research sites worldwide selected by Merck & Co. Inc. to become part of the Merck Oncology Collaborative ... More
May 14, 2010
By David Saleh Rauf - San Antonio Express-News
Texas is investing $3 million in a Dallas-based medical device company created by Dr. Julio Palmaz, a former University of Texas Health Science Center ... More
May 4, 2010
PHOTO: Miguel Yacaman, who heads UTSA's physics and astronomy department, shows off images taken by the world's most powerful electron microscope, nicknamed 'Helenita' after King Ranch heiress Helen ... More
April 30, 2010
Starting this month, an estimated 70 million people from 192 countries and 42 international organizations will gather in China to celebrate the 2010 Shanghai World Expo in what is expected to be the ... More
April 13, 2010
By Elizabeth Allen - Express-News
The University of Texas Health Science Center has named Dr. Francisco González-Scarano the new dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for ... More
April 9, 2010
San Antonio/Corpus Christi, Texas: The South Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization (STRCIC) today announced the formation of its Emerging Technology Fund (ETF) Regional Board. ... More
April 9, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal
DPT Laboratories Ltd. spent more than $30 million to upgrade its sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing capabilities in Lakewood, N.J.
The company invested in a new water system ... More
March 18, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal
DPT Laboratories Ltd. implemented a restructuring of the company’s manufacturing and pharmaceutical contract development operations to establish three new centers ... More
March 18, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal
Kinetic Concepts Inc. (KCI) has rolled out a new wound-management system in the European and Canadian markets.
San Antonio-based KCI (NYSE: KCI) has developed the Prevena ... More
March 17, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal
University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa honored three professors within the system — including one in San Antonio — with the 2010 Chancellor’s ... More
March 11, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institution of Texas awarded nearly $600,000 to two leading San Antonio research organizations to fund programs that will help prevent ... More
March 8, 2010
Bio-pharmaceutical company ViroXis will be the first to move in
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) celebrates the grand opening of its New Venture Incubator (NVI), a facility with laboratory, ... More
March 1, 2010
Much-Anticipated Technology That Offers Alternative to "Barbaric" Traditional Procedures Is Now Commercially Available
(SAN ANTONIO) - For many cancer patients, a bone marrow biopsy and/or ... More
February 26, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded two contracts totaling $41.5 million to established the long-awaited “polytrauma center” to care ... More
February 2, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a new patent to GenSpera Inc. to cover the intellectual property on the company’s second anti-cancer drug compound currently ... More
January 28, 2010
GenSpera Inc. has reached a milestone in the development of its investigational cancer drug.
In a phase 1 clinical study, doctors at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center in Madison treated ... More
January 22, 2010
Pharma giants pick San Antonio cancer center for drug testing
by W. Scott Bailey, San Antonio Business Journal
When competing drug companies Merck & Co. Inc. and AstraZeneca announced in June their ... More
January 21, 2010
By John W. Gonzalez - San Antonio Express-News
The University of Texas Health Science Center on Wednesday was awarded two of the first grants from a new state entity created by Texas voters to accelerate ... More
January 21, 2010
EZ-IO System Helps Gain Essential Vascular Access in Critically Injured Patients (SAN ANTONIO) – Vidacare Corporation has joined forces with Partners In Health (PIH) to provide ... More
January 21, 2010
KCI Donates its Signature V.A.C.® Therapy and Other Wound Care Products; In-Kind Donation Valued at More Than $2 Million
SAN ANTONIO—JAN. 19, 2010—Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (NYSE: KCI) today ... More
January 21, 2010
European Journal of Clinical & Medical Oncology Publishes Meta-Analysis of Phase II and Phase III Trials Supporting Tavocept’s Potential to Increase Lung Cancer Survival San Antonio, TX, ... More
