Newsletter

On September 7th, nearly 500 ecosystem and city leaders, innovators, students, and community members gathered to recognize the lifelong and innovative achievements of Dr. William Henrich and Dr. Sunil Ahuja. This event had the Who’s Who in the San Antonio biomedical ecosystem with contingents from Austin and guests from across the U.S. The pre-dinner networking … Read more

BioMedSA’s Board of Directors approved 2 new memberships in September 2023: Diatomic, Inc. and Globio.  Globiox (pronounced glow-be-o) is a global life science consulting firm that seekd to support companies with quality assurance, regulatory affairs, and quality managment systems. The silent ‘x’ at the end of our name stands for the unknown variable as in … Read more

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), a $2.5 billion federal biomedical agency research agency created in 2022, stands to benefit San Antonio’s $44.1 billion health care and biosciences sector, the city’s largest, and local economic development. It’s a new federal agency designed to change the way patients are treated in the US healthcare … Read more

New Funding to Bolster San Antonio’s Biomedical Startup Ecosystem The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has announced BioMedSA as a Stage Two winner for the national 2023 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition. BioMedSA will receive $150,000 to help catalyze the development of bioscience startups in San Antonio, enabling them to build on a strong foundation as … Read more

BioMedSA’s Board of Directors approved 4 new memberships in August 2023: Blaze Biotech, Carolina Precision, Kowa and Qana. Blaze Biotech is a medical device development firm in San Antonio that works with individuals and small companies seeking to create and grow medical device businesses with the goal of divesting. They review concepts and IP potential … Read more

Sunil K. Ahuja, MD, serves as a Professor and Director of the Center for Personalized Medicine at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System. He serves as a professor of medicine; microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics; and biochemistry and structural biology at UT Health San Antonio. He also serves as Director of Research Enhancement Programs … Read more

BioMedSA’s Board of Directors approved 5 new memberships in June 2023: CENIT Consulting, Clinical Trials of Texas, Galen Data, USI Insurance Services, and Phage Refinery. CENIT Consulting seeks to provide comprehensive regulatory and quality management services specifically tailored for medical device start-ups. Drawing from our expertise in medical device regulatory affairs, they guide companies through … Read more

For many of our members, the search for funding and grants is an inevitable part of growth. We are grateful to the City of San Antonio for approving a new program to support small businesses with high-growth potential.  Funding will be provided based on eligibility requirements assessed as part of an application. Limited funding support … Read more

COL Jane Shen-Gunther, M.D., is an obstetrician-gynocolgist clinician-researcher at the Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC). Her focus is to develop simple and self-administered cancer screening tests. Much of her research has focused on the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), including the development of a highly sophisticated predictive model. In addition to improving patient care, her work has … Read more

Knowing NIH grant paylines is important information to assess whether or not your project will be funded. An NIH payline is determined based the combination of the available funds and applications for those available funds.  The Impact score is evaluated relative to the NIH payline.  The NIH payline is the cutoff for funding: an Impact Score higher … Read more