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The third annual Medical Device Make-a-Thon held on February 26-28, 2021 was an exciting and successful intercollegiate engineering competition event. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s event was held virtually. However, previous years’ number of registrants were surpassed with 15 teams comprised of more than 70 university students from schools all over Texas. They … Read more

“Tissue Regenix (AIM: TRX), the regenerative medical devices company, announces the completion of the initial phase of its expansion plan at the Company’s San Antonio Texas facility. As previously disclosed, the Company had secured a ten-year lease on a 21,000 sq. ft facility adjacent to its existing facility to address manufacturing capacity constraints. The initial … Read more

  SAN ANTONIO (March 11, 2020) – Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) received two Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Health Agency subcontracts to assess the efficacy of surface coating and aerosolized decontamination technologies to combat SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory pathogens on surfaces and in the air. The $4.6 million contracts, of which Texas Biomed will receive … Read more

BioMedSA is part of a nationwide network of similar organizations who leverage their members’ purchasing volume to pre-negotiate cost savings contracts with key suppliers. These pre-negotiated contracts are available to all BioMedSA members. Office Depot, Inc. is a leading provider of business services and supplies, products and technology solutions to small, medium and enterprise businesses, … Read more

Exquisite Biomedical Consulting helps their clients achieve safe and effective adoption of their novel medical devices through regulatory and clinical study initiatives. They help companies develop and implement medical affairs strategies in compliance with regulatory guidelines. Identifying, engaging and building lasting relationships with top tier Key Opinion Leaders is an important service they offer, including … Read more

San Antonio is known for collaboration and mutual support in the life science sector. The Translational Science (TS) PhD degree program is one such example.  A joint degree program between the UT Health San Antonio, UTSA, and UT Austin (the degree-granting institutions) and the UT School of Public Health (as a collaborating institution), the TS … Read more

Dr. Robert A. De Lorenzo is a professor of emergency medicine at UT Health San Antonio (UTHSA) and is the Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Emergency Medicine. He holds an additional appointment as an Adjoint Faculty Member in the Joint Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at San … Read more

Bone loss and subsequent fractures accompanied with aging is significant. Patients with osteoporosis have a 1 year mortality rate after a hip or spinal fracture due to low bone density. Osteoporosis is treatable, but often goes untreated because it is unnoticed by the patient. When a fracture occurs, the patient is typically treated for the … Read more

Longhorn Vaccines & Diagnostics was established in 2006 to innovate new molecular tools, assay, and vaccines. They have the only FDA cleared sample collection system for inactivating pathogens (including COVID-19) for safe and faster collection. Their main product, Primestore® MTM, stabilizes RNA/DNA for molecular testing and fully inactivates viruses within seconds. Production in 2020 ramped … Read more