UTA and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station have opened a new biomanufacturing training and research hub at Pegasus Park focused on workforce training and early-stage biotech development.

The National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing satellite campus, or NCTM2, offers hands-on training, state-of-the-art lab space and support for early-stage biotech companies.…

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Southlake-based Alliance Clinical Network has named Anthony Milonas as its new chief executive officer. He succeeds founder Anthony Abey, who will remain on the network’s board of directors.

In a statement, Abey said Milonas’ “leadership, integrity, and passion for advancing healthcare make him the perfect fit to lead Alliance into its next phase of growth.…

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August was a big month for Sonic Healthcare USA (SHUSA). A subsidiary of Sonic Healthcare, the third largest laboratory company in the world, behind Quest and Labcorp, it relocated its headquarters to Dallas from Austin and announced the acquisition of Cairo Diagnostics, a provider of hematology oncology diagnostics.…

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Dallas-based environmental consulting firm Trinity Consultants has acquired Tucson-based GeoSystems Analysis Inc., a hydrology and natural resources consultancy based in Arizona, New Mexico, and Oregon, with additional resources in Nevada and Peru.

“GSA and Trinity’s missions are intrinsically linked, united by an ambition and ability to solve some of the world’s most complex environmental challenges,” Mike Remsberg, divisional president of Water & Ecology at Trinity, said in a statement.…

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With biotechnology investment still mired in a post-pandemic bear market, Texas biotechs are working to stay competitive after a sharp decrease in funding last year. But new state laws, the rise of artificial intelligence, and the prospect of federal initiatives, including regulatory reform, have some feeling more optimistic about the sector’s future.…

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Dallas-based Women In Bio Executive Director Gina Ford has been named as the organization’s first-ever chief executive officer, taking on an expanded role as both CEO and a member of the board of directors.

“Women are excelling in the life sciences and biotech industries—earning more degrees, driving financial performance, and advancing innovation across the field,” Dianne Keen-Kim, board chair and president of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Women In Bio, said in a statement.…

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CAGE Bio—a San Carlos, California-based clinical-stage biotech startup developing therapies for immune-mediated dermatological conditions—has relocated its Fort Worth office to BioLabs at Pegasus Park in Dallas. 

The company has taken a private lab suite in BioLabs’ 37,000 square foot facility.

Founded in 2016, CAGE Bio’s platform technology was invented by bioengineer Samir Mitragotri.…

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Moving is universally recognized as one of life’s most stressful events. From picking a moving company to managing your to-dos to whipping your new home into shape, the list of tasks to accomplish at times can seem never-ending.

But for people who have recently opted to relocate to North Texas, the move was well worth the hassles.…

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North Texas is solidifying its role as a leader in life sciences innovation with the opening of Bridge Labs at Pegasus Park in Dallas.

The new 135,000-square-foot facility, spread across two floors and connected by a skywalk to the 18-story office tower on the Pegasus Park campus, offers much-needed institutional-quality lab space to meet the area’s growing demand as a biotech hub, leaders said at a ribbon-cutting earlier today. …

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“Dallas is welcoming a double shot of life sciences investment …”

… via Site Selection Magazine. And that’s just a taste of the region’s success in the publication’s most recent “Top Metros” rankings.

The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area claimed the No.…

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Tarleton State University received the go-ahead for a new biotechnology institute as part of Texas A&M-Fort Worth’s burgeoning downtown research campus.

Approved in mid-August by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents, the biotech institute is situated in one of the nation’s fastest-growing life sciences hubs.…

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Irving-based Fluor Corporation announced Thursday that it has been awarded over $1 billion in two different life sciences contracts recently.

The larger project of the two involves mobilizing resources in the central U.S. “for the first phase of a new life sciences production facility valued at $574 million,” Fluor stated.…

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The life sciences ecosystem in Dallas has gotten a boost with the announcement of plans for the development of Bridge Labs, the next phase of Pegasus Park in Dallas by J. Small Investments, Montgomery Street Partners, and an affiliate of Lyda Hill Philanthropies.…

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Loopback Analytics, a Dallas-based provider of analytics and data-enabled services for health systems and life sciences organizations, announced a strategic growth investment by growth equity firm PSG.

The amount of the investment was not released.

PSG partners with software and technology-enabled services companies to help accelerate their growth.…

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Irving-based Caris Life Sciences and Massachusetts’ ConcertAI have announced an expanded translational sciences and clinical development solutions partnership they say will lead to enhanced patient care for people with cancer.

Caris is a leading molecular science, AI, and machine learning technology company actively developing and delivering innovative solutions to revolutionize healthcare.…

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Dallas-based growth-oriented private equity firm Trinity Hunt Partners announced a majority investment in Supreme Optimization, a digital marketing agency focused exclusively on life sciences.

No financial details were released.

Founded in 2015 and based in Southern California with a team distributed across the U.S.,…

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Update, May 19, 2023: NexPoint has announced that the project detailed in this article has been renamed from the TxS District to the “Texas Research Quarter,” or TRQ.

Plans and renderings have been revealed for the TxS District, a proposed 200-acre life sciences development in Plano that could eventually create over 4 million square feet of lab, office, and therapeutic production space.…

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Dallas-based life science company ReCode Therapeutics has appointed Patricia “Trisha” Millican to its board of directors, bringing with her more than 20 years of experience in the life science industry.

ReCode Therapeutics is a genetic medicines company using superior delivery to power the next wave of mRNA and gene correction therapeutics.…

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After developing the tools that could one day bring back the woolly mammoth to the Siberian Arctic tundra and see the Tasmanian tiger return to Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea, a Dallas-based startup is spinning out that technology to usher in a new era of scientific discovery.…

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After going fully virtual in Dallas during the pandemic, Capital Factory is opening a new physical space for the region’s entrepreneurs.

The Austin-based accelerator and investor plans to launch a Center for Health Innovation at Pegasus Park in Dallas. The new center will connect startups, corporates, and research players in the space with each other, locally and across the state.…

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