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Dallas-Fort Worth Biotech Targets Cancer’s ‘Achilles Heel’ with Nanotechnology
by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist | Aug 1, 2024
OncoNano's innovative approach to cancer treatment leverages nanotechnology to bring tumors into the light.
by Lance Murray |
Mar 11, 2024
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) method that writes its own algorithms and may one day operate as an “automated scientist” to extract meaning from complex datasets....
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 8, 2023
Children’s Health in Dallas announced the appointment of Dane Peterson as chief operating officer of the leading pediatric healthcare system and top children’s hospital in North Texas....
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jun 13, 2023
Concern has swept the nation since COVID hit about the pandemic's lasting affects on the mental health of children and adolescents. But that mental health crisis has actually been worsening for years, even before the pandemic. The Dallas Morning News' Marin Wolf explores what Children’s Health, UT Southwestern, Cook Children's, and Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute are doing to get ahead of the problem.
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UT Southwestern Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center [Photo: UTSW]
CPRIT Awards Over $20M to UT Southwestern and UT Dallas to Fight Cancer
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Feb 17, 2023
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas approved over $90 million in new cancer research and prevention grants at its quarterly meeting near the Texas Capitol on Wednesday—and $20.6 million of that money is coming to North Texas to advance everything from breast cancer and lung cancer screening to "deep learning models" to facilitate T-cell receptor therapies.
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by Lance Murray |
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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by David Seeley |
Jan 26, 2023
Last month, we told you about MedCognetics getting FDA clearance for its unbiased AI-enabled software for breast cancer screening. Today, the Dallas-based company announced it has been awarded $750,000 from an NIH program to research unbiased AI for breast cancer detection.
The NIH's AIM-AHEAD program—short for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity—awarded the grant. "This NIH grant will play an important role in future product development as well as helping us further expand our global market penetration," said MedCognetics CEO Debasish Nag.
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by Quincy Preston |
Dec 30, 2022
As one of the nation’s premier academic medical centers, nurturing employees for management and leadership roles is mission critical. The medical center, with its workforce of nearly 23,000, received the 2022 BOLD award for its leadership development.
“As we do with our scientific, medical, and training missions, we apply data-driven strategies to nurture leaders who contribute to our institution’s culture of integrity, inclusiveness, and collaboration, and extend those qualities throughout the organization,” Holly Crawford said.
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BioLabs at Pegasus Park. [Photo: BioLabs at Pegasus Park]
SMU Is Bringing Its ‘Innovative Biotech Research’ to Pegasus Park
by Kevin Cummings | Oct 24, 2022
The Biotech+ Hub at Pegasus Park in Dallas has been attracting more and more life science startups and university teams. Now a whole herd of Mustangs are about to stampede there. The SMU Institute for Computational Biosciences at Pegasus Park will have space at the 23-acre development. SMU researchers from a variety of disciplines will be focusing on bio-scientific discoveries, leveraging advanced computational algorithms and technologies.
"We're excited to give SMU faculty this new opportunity to pursue world-changing research for good and to do so in close proximity to a broad range of academic, medical, corporate, and non-profit collaborators," says SMU Provost Elizabeth Loboa. "We're excited to give SMU faculty this new opportunity to pursue world-changing research for good and to do so in close proximity to a broad range of academic, medical, corporate, and non-profit collaborators," says SMU Provost Elizabeth Loboa.
"We're excited to give SMU faculty this new opportunity to pursue world-changing research for good and to do so in close proximity to a broad range of academic, medical, corporate, and non-profit collaborators," says SMU Provost Elizabeth Loboa. "We're excited to give SMU faculty this new opportunity to pursue world-changing research for good and to do so in close proximity to a broad range of academic, medical, corporate, and non-profit collaborators," says SMU Provost Elizabeth Loboa.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 28, 2022
Over 150 scientists across dozens of departments will be part of the elite National Institutes of Health-funded, university-wide interdisciplinary research center. Dallas' UT Southwestern Medical Center is the only institution in Texas to be selected for the NIH initiative.
UTSW wants to translate scientific discoveries into new therapeutic strategies for the prevention and treatment of obesity, which it describes as a chronic disease affecting more than 40% of the U.S. population, with medical costs nearing $175 billion.
UTSW wants to translate scientific discoveries into new therapeutic strategies for the prevention and treatment of obesity, which it describes as a chronic disease affecting more than 40% of the U.S. population, with medical costs nearing $175 billion.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Sep 12, 2022
From obesity to cardiovascular disease, we live in an era of unprecedented diet-related health problems. But Dr. Albin, who leads the Culinary Medicine program at UT Southwestern, and her team are trying to cook up a solution by reviewing programs at medical schools across the U.S.
The review of programs by UT Southwestern researchers has been published in Academic Medicine, the journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Sep 6, 2022
The Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas has provided more than $3.1 billion in funding toward the development of cancer-fighting therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, and tools since 2010. It's now issued a call for startups and early-stage companies to apply for product development research grants for the 2023 fiscal year.
“CPRIT’s mission is to invest in the research prowess of Texas institutions while expediting breakthroughs in cancer cures and prevention,” CEO Wayne Roberts said last May.
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Airmen learning how the BILT instruction app provides the capability to rotate, zoom in, and interact with 3D animations. [Photo: BILT]
Follow the Money: BILT Gets $1.7M Air Force Grant for 3D Instructions App, PGA of America Invests in Golf Innovation, and More
by Kevin Cummings | Jul 25, 2022
Plus, Fort Worth's Harvest Returns raises new fund; new Ryan acquisition makes 2022 its most active M&A year; OpTic Gaming acquires Dallas chatbot startup; Dallas legal education firm boosts digital content library; and Fort Worth's Novaria Group acquires firm with giant aerospace clients.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Jul 20, 2022
UT Dallas-based Qualia Oto is developing the next generation of cochlear implants, and has announced closing a Series A preferred round of around $1.64 million.
Unlike typical cochlear implants that use bundles of wires attached to a receiver to stimulate the auditory nerve, Qualia Oto’s implant uses thin-film electrode arrays embedded in a polymer, allowing for more contact with the inner ear. That translates to a higher quality and range of sounds that are able to be transmitted.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Jun 29, 2022
ReCode Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical startup using a non-viral lipid nanoparticle delivery platform for gene therapies, has closed a $120 million extension to a funding round it raised last year to help bring its lead programs to human trials and “follow the science” to target new diseases.
With a research team working out of BioLabs' life sciences facility at Pegasus Park, ReCode aims to grow its global team from about 70 to 100 over the next year.
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by David Seeley |
May 9, 2022
Mommies in Need is a nonprofit that provides child care for children whose mothers are seeking healthcare, or whose siblings are in the hospital. Located near Parkland Hospital, the nonprofit's facility Annie's Place makes a difference daily. Now founder and CEO Natalie Boyle is getting the word out further about this compelling need—with her new "Culture of Caring" podcast.
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