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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Hello Sunshine, founded by actress Reese Witherspoon, is debuting Sunniefest, an immersive one-day festival designed for girls ages 13-18 to connect, create, and be inspired, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. this Saturday, Nov. 15, at Pegasus Park in Dallas.

The event is supported by Hello Sunshine partner IF/THEN, an initiative of Dallas-based Lyda Hill Philanthropies, which is focused on inspiring the next generation of girls to pursue STEM careers.…

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A Plano-born biotech founder has returned to North Texas to establish the headquarters for his company, Curve Biosciences, at Pegasus Park, the nationally recognized life science and biotech innovation hub in Dallas.

Curve announced it has raised $40 million in funding led by Luma Group with participation from First Spark Ventures, Techas Capital, Micah Spear, Civilization Ventures, LifeX Ventures, Incite, Mintaka VC, NZVC, and others.…

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It made perfect sense that organizers of last week’s 2025 Annual Venture Dallas Conference chose the private library of Dallas billionaire Harlan Crow as the setting for their kickoff VIP Reception. The invite-only reception, after all, was sponsored by the NYSE Texas stock exchange, which in August had leased 28,000 square feet at Crow’s swank Old Parkland office campus in Dallas’ Oak Lawn neighborhood.…

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“The pace of change has never been greater.”

Cait Brumme
CEO
MassChallenge
… on why MassChallenge’s INNOVATE ’25 focuses on what’s next

That’s the thinking behind INNOVATE ’25: DFW Setting the Pace, the annual day-long symposium MassChallenge is bringing to Dallas on Thursday.…

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CleanSpace, a Pennsylvania-based provider of modular cleanroom design and construction, has opened a new regional office at Dallas’ Pegasus Park and announced a strategic partnership with the innovation hub. As part of the collaboration, CleanSpace will serve as the “design-builder of choice” for the growing number of biotech and life sciences companies at Pegasus Park, the company said.…

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Nationally ranked healthcare accelerator Health Wildcatters has named 11 startups to its newest class, marking what the Dallas-based program called another milestone in the region’s rise as a health innovation hub.

Now in its 13th year, the accelerator has backed 131 companies to date, reinforcing its role as one of the most active early-stage healthcare investors in the U.S.…

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David E. Snow has been named as Pegasus Park’s first executive director. The veteran tech development leader is slated to lead multiyear strategic planning, ecosystem growth, business development efforts and foster regional collaboration across the biotech, academic, and nonprofit sectors.

Pegasus Park is a 26-acre, 885,000-square-foot mixed-use office campus serving as a hub of biotech, life sciences, social impact, and corporate innovation that’s located between the Dallas Design District and Southwestern Medical District.…

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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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The fifth Venture Dallas Conference returns to the Bush Center this fall, backed by J.P. Morgan, Perot Jain, and a board of local dealmakers focused on the region’s next wave of growth.

The annual conference has become a window into why North Texas is drawing national investment attention.…

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Health Wildcatters—a seed accelerator founded in 2013 to advance Dallas-Fort Worth’s burgeoning healthcare industry—is now accelerating the impact of its own home base in Dallas’ Pegasus Park innovation hub.

Exclusively focused on healthcare, Health Wildcatters has 118 portfolio companies that have raised collectively over $350 million in the last 12 years—with an average of 500-plus founder applications now flowing in each year.…

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The Ignite Health Foundation recently hosted a Golden Ticket North Texas pitch competition at Pegasus Park in Dallas, where seven female-led healthcare startups pitched before a panel of judges from McKinsey, Accenture, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and more. The event “spotlighted women-led ventures tackling some of healthcare’s most pressing challenges, from precision medicine to women’s health,” the foundation said.…

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GenrAb, a biotechnology startup based at Pegasus Park in Dallas, has raised $5.6 million in seed funding to advance what it describes as a “first-in-class” therapy designed to help brain cells survive—using naturally occurring antibodies discovered in the spinal fluid of patients with neurological disease.…

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Dallas-based seed accelerator Health Wildcatters will hold the 7th annual Texas Healthcare Challenge Hackathon this weekend, April 4–5, at Pegasus Park, the Dallas-based innovation hub.

“The Texas Healthcare Challenge continues to highlight the incredible depth of talent and ingenuity within our region,” Dr.…

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Jibe Therapeutics won the Pegasus Park-hosted Golden Ticket Pitch Competition, offered by the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) BrightEdge in collaboration with AbbVie and Research Bridge Partners.

For its win, Jibe Therapeutics receives one year of fully paid individual bench space and membership at BioLabs Pegasus Park, a $25,000 cash prize to support research, and guidance from the sponsor companies and industry professionals.…

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Biomanufacturing is booming, and North Texas is building on its momentum as a rising force in biotech and life sciences. A new center opening this summer at Dallas’ Pegasus Park aims to train the next generation of workers and help startups bring cutting-edge therapies from lab to market.…

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Madrid-based Universal DX has come in as a new tenant at Dallas’ Bridge Labs at Pegasus Park, where the international cancer diagnostics biotechnology company will occupy 8,021 square feet in the facility’s largest spec suite.

“We’re thrilled to expand our company’s presence beyond our headquarters in Spain and join the dynamic ecosystem at Pegasus Park,” Juan Martinez-Bareaz, founder and executive president of Universal DX, said in a statement.…

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Secretome Therapeutics, a Baltimore-based biotechnology company advancing therapies derived from neonatal cardiac progenitor cells, has closed a $20.4 million round of financing that will enable it to initiate clinical trials for its lead asset, STM-01, and further advance its innovative pipeline.…

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The Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology announced that Lyda Hill and Lyda Hill Philanthropies are this year’s recipients of its Kay Bailey Hutchison Distinguished Service Award.

TAMEST said it’s recognizing Hill—a Dallas businesswoman and philanthropist and the granddaughter of oil magnate H.L.…

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Dallas-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company Forte Biosciences Inc. (Nasdaq: FBRX) announced an oversubscribed $53 million equity financing to support the continuing clinical advancement of its FB102, a proprietary molecule with potentially broad autoimmune and autoimmune-related applications.

Founded in 2007, Forte is headquartered at Dallas’ Pegasus Park and focuses on autoimmune and autoimmune-related diseases.…

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