Year in Review
BioMed SA completed its second full year of operation in 2007 with continued progress towards achieving the organization's mission - to promote San Antonio's healthcare and bioscience assets to accelerate growth of the sector and enhance San Antonio's reputation as a city of science and medicine. For a review of our strategic accomplishments, see
"Celebrate the Science of San Antonio"
Healthcare and Bioscience: Fueling San Antonio's Growth
As America’s seventh largest city, San Antonio is a community that embraces science and medicine. Its vibrant healthcare and bioscience industry, a dominant force in the city’s economy with an annual economic impact exceeding $15 billion, combines unique assets and a diversity of resources with a collaborative spirit that is making a global impact on science and health. For more information on San Antonio and its expanding Healthcare and bioscience industry, see
"San Antonio: The Seventh-Largest U.S. City...and Growing" (Forbes Magazine)
Coveted federal translational research award comes
to SA.
The University of Texas Health Science Center has landed a $26 million federal grant that will support an effort to get research innovations from the lab to the medical clinic more quickly. Part of the five-year project will support efforts by a dozen regional health care providers to take clinical trials into underserved areas of South Texas.
FOR FULL STORY. (San Antonio Express-News, May 28, 2008)
New center in S.A. unites health care services
A 2-year-old collaborative between two publicly traded health care companies has reached a tangible outcome in San Antonio — the Medco Center for Health Action, aimed at improving health services and reducing health costs nationwide.
FOR FULL STORY. (San Antonio Express-News, May 21, 2008)
New company to develop drugs for women
The Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research is taking a step toward putting San Antonio on the biomedical industry map by spinning off a company focused on women's health drugs.
FOR FULL STORY. (San Antonio Express-News, March 10, 2008)
SA-based study to look at post-traumatic stress
A new study with headquarters in San Antonio will spend the next five years investigating the best ways of detecting and treating post-traumatic stress disorder in active duty personnel and soldiers who recently have been discharged. The $33 million project will be led by The University of Texas Health Science Center and will involve military and civilian researchers from across Texas.
FOR FULL STORY. (San Antonio Express-News, March 21, 2008)
S.A. Being Positioned as Major Trauma Hub
San Antonio's military and civilian medical experts are positioning the city as one of the nation's major centers for trauma research and treatment. "From a military standpoint, we have 500 deaths per year in a time of war, but the trauma problem is so much greater in the civilian world with 160,000 deaths annually," said Col. John Holcomb, commander of the U.S. Army's Institute of Surgical Research.
FOR FULL STORY. (San Antonio Express-News, November 11, 2007)
UTHSC's $33.7 million grant will bring National Children's Study to San Antonio
One thousand San Antonio children would be followed from the womb — and in some cases, from conception — to their 21st birthday as part of the biggest and most ambitious study ever to look at children’s health and well being, federal health officials announced Thursday.
The National Children’s Study is designed to track 100,000 American children to adulthood to answer dozens of questions about what social and environmental factors — from diet to pesticide exposures to television viewing — combine with genetic risk to contribute to a host of diseases, including autism, asthma, obesity, diabetes and mental illness.
FOR FULL STORY. (Don Finley
Express-News Medical Writer, October 4, 2007)
Bayer to purchase Citracal
San Antonio-based Mission Pharmacal Co. has struck a deal to sell its Citracal brand to Bayer HealthCare, freeing family-owned Mission to focus on new products while continuing to make Citracal for Bayer.
FOR FULL STORY.
(San Antonio Express-News, August 30, 2007)
AT&T Foundation donates $1 million to biomed research group
The Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR) received a $1 million gift from the AT&T Foundation that will allow the research institute's AT&T Genomics Computing Center to double the power and speed of its "computer ranch."
SFBR's computer ranch is the world's largest cluster of computers linked together for genetic analysis.
FOR THE FULL STORY. (San Antonio Business Journal, August 13, 2007)
UT Health Science Center named country's No. 1 Hispanic research institute
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio has been ranked the top Hispanic-serving institution for attracting federal research dollars, according to a report released by the National Science Foundation.
FOR THE FULL STORY. (San Antonio Business Journal, August 3, 2007)
Methodist Healthcare facilities become the first and only
hospitals in the United States to receive
Hispanic healthcare designation
SAN ANTONIO, TX (August 3, 2007) -- The Diversity Health Care Program of Mexico today accredited Methodist Healthcare facilities as Hispanic Healthcare Hospitals, making them the first and only hospitals in the United States to receive this distinction
FOR THE FULL STORY.
Texas Research Park named finalist for $500M biodefense facility
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has selected the Texas Research Park as one of five finalists for a $500 million national laboratory that will focus on biological threats to humans and animals.
The government will announce its final site selection for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in October 2008. Construction is slated to begin in 2010 and the lab is expected to operational by 2013 or early 2014. (San Antonio Business Journal - July 11, 2007)
FOR THE FULL STORY.
