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Cancer Genome Project will put San Antonio in research spotlight
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San Antonio urology professors lead nation in research funding
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December 20, 2010
Photo caption: Dr. Larry Miller (foreground), founder of Vidacare, boards the plane for Haiti to deliver over $100,000 of donated intraosseous infusion equipment to treat severely dehydrated cholera patients. ... More
December 18, 2010
Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff (from left), University Health System head George Hernandez, Commissioner Paul Elizondo, Mayor Julian Castro and Christus Santa Rosa chief Pat Carrier ... More
December 15, 2010
By Don Finley
The Baptist Health System was recognized Tuesday for being among the fastest in the country at getting stroke patients from the front door to clot-busting therapy - a development remarkable ... More
December 14, 2010
San Antonio (December 14, 2010) - The South Texas American Diabetes Association (ADA) shared impressive outcomes that illustrate effective diabetes management averages from Diabetes & Glandular Disease ... More
December 3, 2010
Erin R. Nosel inspects new equipment at UIW's Sandra and Stanley Rosenberg School of Optometry. Photo: Bob Owen / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
By Melissa Ludwig
University ... More
December 2, 2010
Winners of the Research Project category at the Alamo Region FIRST Lego League tournament Nov. 20 in San Antonio ... More
December 1, 2010
By David Hendricks - San Antonio Express-News
San Antonio's health care and bioscience industry delivered a $24.5 billion economic impact last year, according to new, broader measurements used in a report ... More
November 24, 2010
(SAN ANTONIO) - The Austin Intellectual Property Law Association ("Austin IPLA") is honoring Dr. Larry Miller, Founder and Chief Medical Officer of San Antonio-based Vidacare Corporation, with the 2010 ... More
November 22, 2010
CAPTION: Julio C. Palmaz, M.D., invented the world’s first vascular stent — the Palmaz Stent — which changed the standard of care in cardiology and peripheral vascular medicine worldwide.
SAN ... More
November 17, 2010
San Antonio, TX - Hundreds of young roboticists will gather at Our Lady of the Lake University Saturday, Nov. 20 for the FIRST Lego League's "Body Forward" qualifier tournament. ... More
November 5, 2010
(SAN ANTONIO) November 4, 2010 - Sixteen San Antonio biotechnology and medical device companies have been awarded a collective total of almost $4.9 million in federal tax credit grants as part of the new ... More
October 18, 2010
(SAN ANTONIO) – In a move to further enhance strategic growth, Vidacare Corporation announced today that it is significantly increasing its in-house direct sales force to manage sales of all the ... More
October 7, 2010
By Wendy Rigby - KENS 5
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SAN ANTONIO -- The Texas legislature is investing in a San Antonio partnership that's really paying off.
The University of Texas at San ... More
October 1, 2010
San Antonio Express-News - by Patrick Danner Christus Santa Rosa Health System plans to convert one of its outpatient surgery centers near Alamo Heights to a 35-bed surgical hospital that's slated to open ... More
September 29, 2010
San Antonio Express-News, by David Hendricks
CAPTION: Gov. Rick Perry announces to San Antonio, Bexar County and area business leaders that the Texas Emerging Technology Fund will invest a total ... More
September 24, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal - by Mike W. Thomas
The federal government is looking increasingly to San Antonio when it needs expertise in areas relating to military and medicine.
Just recently a pair ... More
September 24, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal - by W. Scott Bailey
The START Center for Cancer Care has created a new division, GenomeConsult, that will link oncologists with patient-specific, DNA-based molecular testing ... More
September 23, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal
ENTrigue Surgical Inc. will introduce a new medical product at the upcoming American Academy of Otolaryngology Annual Symposium and Exhibition.
The San Antonio company’s ... More
September 23, 2010
CAPTION: Glass partitions protect desk workers at the nurses’ station at the new tuberculosis hospital. A sophisticated ... More
September 17, 2010
By Derek ThompsonThe Atlantic
During the slow recovery, only one major city outside Washington, D.C., has ranked in the top 10 for the fewest jobs lost and the highest economic growth in the country. ... More
September 16, 2010
(SAN ANTONIO) September 16, 2010 – BioMed SA, the non-profit corporation founded in 2005 to help grow and promote San Antonio’s thriving healthcare and bioscience sector, will award ... More
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
