WET LAB AND STARTUP BUSINESS INCUBATOR

BIOTECHNOLOGY IN AUSTIN, TX

Science in the Mall with Laura Bosworth of Tevido BioDevicesAll great discoveries start as an idea in someone’s head and it requires a lot of time, energy, perseverance and help to actually get it into the hands of someone who will benefit from it. First, you have to convince yourself that it’s a good idea (not always as easy as you would think… the inner self critic can be a big hurdle). Then you have to convince other people that it is a good idea. Without a team behind you and a significant financial investment, a discovery in the life sciences is likely to never see the light of day. Additionally, building infrastructure and the high-end instrumentation required are often cost prohibitive.Here at Austin Community College’s Bioscience Incubator, we provide affordable lab space to startups, with access to extensive equipment and instrumentation as a way of lowering the barrier to these great ideas. However, ABI has only been in existence for 3.5 years. Before ACC took the bold leap to build such a valuable resource for the Austin life sciences community, there was very little support available for biotech entrepreneurs. So, how did companies do it before the Bioscience Incubator existed? Were they doing this work in their garage? Did they spend their life savings on ideas that may not have been that great? Or did they just abandon the whole idea? Take a listen to the founder of local biotech company, Tevido Biodevices, as she retraces the path to now.Laura Bosworth is smart, resourceful, capable, nimble, and she has landed in a business that is offering a fantastic product called TruPigment catering to people with areas of skin lacking in pigment. Not only did she rent a building and build a lab, but her process required that she upgrade the capabilities of the lab to include a cleanroom to accommodate processing of skin from people who have diseases like vitiligo. Laura and her team (that included people that she hired out of the ACC Biotech program) process portions of the patient’s skin that is not affected by the disease and provides those cells back to their doctor to re-pigment the affected areas. It sounds like science fiction, but those are the kinds of science that are being done in the Mall. Listen to Episode 4 of Science in the Mall, Y'all for a great story of how it got done before ABI existed.  Nancy LyonInterim DirectorListen on your favorite platform:Acast // SoundCloud // Spotify // iTunes // Google Play // Stitcher

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The third installment of the Launch & Learn series by Capital City Innovation and Affinity Partners is happening Friday, Aug 7th. This month they will be covering Building Social Networks to Land Your Next Job with Dereck Haseltine, the founding director of Baylor College of Medicine’s Career Development Center 

This is a great opportunity for those navigating uncertainty in their careers while also building a digital community during COVID-19.

Registration is free and the event starts at 12 pm. You can share the link and RSVP below. 

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The ACC Bioscience Incubator was born out of an approximately 9,500 SF renovation of the iconic Highland Mall in central Austin, TX. The facility features 4,000 SF of wet labs, two ISO 8 clean rooms, open workspace, conference space, and support offices. The space is designed to create a flexible environment that allows life science entrepreneurs to focus on innovation.

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BioDevices ABI & partners launch a consortium to support innovators fighting COVID-19 and future pandemics

TEXGHS is positioned to spearhead the creation and long-term success of a health security innovation ecosystem in Texas where equitable, inclusive solutions launch locally and grow globally. The initial focus of the consortium is the coordination of current resources in the Austin innovation ecosystem, and that will be followed by a statewide expansion to develop additional capacity to expedite research, development, commercialization, workforce development and manufacturing at the intersection of health security and technology.

ABI Companies Working on COVID-19

\We would like to take a moment to applaud and to thank the following member companies for stepping up to the plate to come up with a resolution to fight COVID-19.

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