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BioNTX Celebrates North Texas Startup ‘Rising Stars’ at Investor Dinner

by | Dec 18, 2025
Eight North Texas startups were honored as 2025 BioNTX Rising Stars, in a program designed to elevate emerging companies by providing visibility, credibility, and direct access to investors, industry leaders, and strategic partners.
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BioNTX and Indian Institute of Science Foundation Launch Healthcare Innovation Collaboration
by | Oct 8, 2025
The partnership establishes a cross-continental bridge between India and North Texas to support "clinical research, translational science, and long-term global impact," BioNTX said.
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‘The Model is Broken’: From North Texas, a National Call to Action for Biotech’s Future
by | Sep 24, 2025
At Dallas’ iC3 Summit, leaders from Texas and across the U.S. pointed to AI, new state initiatives like Proposition 14, and potential federal reforms as keys to speeding innovation and keeping America competitive in life sciences.
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UT Dallas, UT Southwestern Among Six 2025 iC3 Tech Transfer Showcase Finalists
by | Aug 19, 2025
Part of the 2025 iC³ Life Science & Healthcare Innovation Summit to be held September 16-17 in Dallas, the showcase pitch event is designed to connect university researchers with potential investors, industry executives, and strategic partners. This is the first year the showcase has expanded beyond Texas.
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UT Southwestern Spinout Emerges From Stealth With $5.6M to Push ‘First in Class’ Neuroprotective Therapy Into the Clinic

by | Apr 24, 2025
Dallas biotech GenrAb is developing an antibody therapy that aims to protect brain cells under stress—the kind of damage that leads to disability in diseases like MS and ALS. The therapy, found in the spinal fluid of real patients, is now showing promise in animal models and moving toward human trials.
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The Last Word: How Advanced Therapies Week 2025 Positioned Dallas as a Life Sciences Leader
by | Feb 12, 2025
Advanced Therapies Week 2025—a conference focused on the latest innovations in cell and gene therapies, regenerative medicine, and other biotechnologies—attracted industry leaders, researchers, and visionaries to Dallas' Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in late January. Organized by London-based Phacilitate, the 4-day conference acted as a "collaborative hub" showcasing the intersection of cutting-edge science, transformative healthcare solutions, and dynamic regional collaboration.
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BioNTX To Honor Renibus Therapeutics CEO with its 2024 Dennis K. Stone Award at iC³ Conference
by | Oct 2, 2024
Renibus CEO Jeff Keyser will be acknowledged as the award recipient at the 10th Annual iC³ Life Science & Healthcare Innovation Summit on Thursday, the first day of the Oct. 3-4 summit at the Loews Arlington Hotel & Convention Center.
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BioNTX Announces Finalists for the 2024 Tech Transfer Showcase Pitch Competition at the Upcoming iC³ Summit
by | Sep 26, 2024
The Tech Transfer Showcase spotlights life science innovation at universities and strengthens the development of future leaders and entrepreneurs, BioNTX said. Here are the six university finalists who'll be pitching at the summit.
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10th Annual iC3 Summit: BioNTX Brings Life Science Leaders to Brand-New Loews Arlington Venue in October

by | Jun 17, 2024
The 2024 iC3 Summit, hosted by nonprofit BioNTX, is set to welcome over 1,000 industry professionals, researchers, entrepreneurs, and investors for its largest gathering yet. The event's formula—Innovation = Capital × Collaboration × Commercialization,—underscores its mission to drive breakthroughs through strategic partnerships and investments. The 2024 iC3 Summit, hosted by nonprofit BioNTX, is set to welcome over 1,000 industry professionals, researchers, entrepreneurs, and investors for its largest gathering yet. The event's formula—Innovation = Capital × Collaboration × Commercialization—underscores its mission to drive breakthroughs through strategic partnerships and investments.
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The Last Word: GEW North Texas on This Week’s Region-Wide Entrepreneurship Event
by | Nov 14, 2023
GEW North Texas—which kicked off Monday and runs through Sunday November 19—is part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, held in cities worldwide one week each November. The movement aims to inspire entrepreneurs around the globe while fostering connections and increasing collaboration within their ecosystems.
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BioNTX Strengthens Board With Biotech Veteran Jon Weidanz

BioNTX, a leading nonprofit bioscience and healthcare innovation organization in North Texas, has appointed Jon Weidanz to its board of directors. Weidanz brings extensive experience as an immunology researcher, academic leader, biotech entrepreneur, and founder....

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The Last Word: DRC’s Kelly Cloud on the Kickoff of the BioNTX iC3 Summit
by | Sep 28, 2023
With a theme of “Innovation, Capital, Collaboration, Commercialization”—or iC³—the summit unites researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, corporations, and support organizations to forge the relationships that drive progress.
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Swiss American CDMO and BioNTX To Launch the Biotechnology and Healthcare Industry Alliance of North Texas

by | Jun 14, 2023
The alliance's first event will be held June 22 in a bid to champion a next-generation, industry-led workforce partnership for North Texas. The alliance seeks to bring together industry trade and manufacturing ecosystems, the organizations said—and it will be working with Dallas College and other partner institutions to help make it happen.
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Bridge Labs Expansion Coming to Pegagus Park in 2024
by | Feb 13, 2023
The new two-story lab and office building will offer "the first institutional-quality space" in the DFW market, according to marketing materials.
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Startup to Storefront: SkinStasis Launches ‘Revolutionary’ Skin Care Product Out of BioLabs at Pegasus Park
Co-founders Paul Stewart and Frank Murdock started up SkinStasis Skin Care earlier this year to meet "a big unmet need" in the cold sore/herpes virus field, where they say there's been "no real new pharmaceutical development" for over 20 years.

Working out of BioLabs at Pegasus Park, they teamed up with Irving's Cosmetic Laboratories to launch NextLeap—which uses tranexamic acid to shorten the time to recovery of normal appearance to as little as 24 to 48 hours, the co-founders say.
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Dr. Venu Varanasi, pictured in his lab,an associate professor and lab director at UT Arlington, won the pitch competition.
UT Arlington Researcher Takes Home Pitch Competition Prize for Bone Regeneration Work
by | Sep 26, 2022
After a rigorous process, the top six applications to the Tech Transfer Office Showcase at BioNTX's iC3 life science summit were invited to pitch live at BioNTX's life science summit. Industry experts rated, graded, and discussed the technologies prior to the pitches "We want to cultivate technologies that are coming out of the university ecosystem here—and we want them to stay here," said Chad Ronholdt, managing director at NVB Ventures.
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