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IMAGE: CurveBiosciences founder, Ritish Patnaik, standing at a table with the Dallas skyline behind him.

Dallas’ Curve Biosciences Raises $40M for Its ‘Whole-Body Intelligence’ Disease Monitoring Platform

by | Nov 11, 2025
Curve’s Plano-born founder and CEO, Ritish Patnaik, says "chronic diseases are on the rise, and healthcare costs are skyrocketing as a result." From its newly established HQ at Pegasus Park in Dallas, Curve will use the funding to advance the clinical validation and commercialization of its Whole-Body Intelligence platform, with a goal of "transforming" chronic disease monitoring.
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Dallas’ Topaz Labs Partners with Texas A&M, Stanford, CalTech, and Others on Use of Agentic AI for Photo Editing & Restoration
by | Oct 21, 2025
The system's open-source framework integrates more than 50 specialized AI models to autonomously analyze, plan, and restore images, "mirroring the decision-making process of a professional editor."
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Texas-Based Research Bridge Partners Taps New Board Leadership to Drive ‘High-Quality Investment Opportunities’ in Biomedical Innovation
by | Aug 9, 2024
With a new CEO and three seasoned industry veterans joining its board, Research Bridge Partners is focused on moving university innovations from the lab to the marketplace.

Last year, the Texas-based nonprofit, in collaboration with Lyda Hill Philanthropies, invested $4 million into North Texas’ UT Southwestern Medical Center, bolstering efforts to transform groundbreaking research into viable companies.
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Opthalmic Industry Veteran Joins Nacuity Pharmaceuticals’ Board
by | Apr 19, 2024
Emmett T. Cunningham is a senior partner at HealthQuest Capital Management and co-founder and executive chairman of Eyconis, a spinout of Ascendis Pharma.
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16 Biotech Companies in Dallas-Fort Worth ‘Putting the Tech in Bio’ to Drive Breakthroughs

Dallas-Fort Worth is well known for its tech expertise. Now it being recognized as the place where technology meets life science—a convergence that’s driving rapid growth in the biotech ecosystem. Leaders in the industry attribute this success to the unique convergence of the region’s exceptional tech talent pool and cutting-edge developments in life science....

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R&D: $200K Grant Aids UTA Reabsorbable Brain Implant Work; Will UTD Chess Computing Platform Say Checkmate?
by | Nov 9, 2018
Also, you'll learn about the Dallas-based American Heart Association backing research teams looking into age-related cognitive declines, and a Plano-based biotech company getting an approval from the EPA.
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UT Southwestern Ranks No. 5 in World for Impact on Innovation
by | Aug 10, 2017
The institutions were evaluated based on the number of published research articles cited as major sources of third-party patent applications.
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Software May Help Oil & Gas Industry Quell Earthquakes
by | Mar 6, 2017
The technology gives operators the fault's location and geometry, natural stresses in the ground, and the pressure changes that would occur if more fluids are injected
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