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Houston Biomed Incubators to Collaborate, Combine Labs

UTHealth’s Bruce Butler, Ph.D., and BioHouston’s Jacqueline Northcut (UTHealth)

UTHealth's Bruce Butler (left) and BioHouston's Jacqueline Northcut sign the new collaborative agreement between their organizations (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston)

Two business incubators in Houston, Texas aimed at biomedical start up companies, have agreed to collaborate and share facilities. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and BioHouston Inc. announced an agreement yesterday that calls for greater collaboration between the organizations’ technology incubators and consolidation of services.

The UTHealth incubator is known as the Biotechnology Commercialization Center (BCC) that comes under UTHealth’s Office of Technology Management. BioHouston plans to transfer its biomedical laboratory equipment to BCC that has 20,000 sq. ft. of lab space. The BCC’s year-old incubator currently has nine tenant companies.

A third business incubator in Houston, the Houston Technology Center has 64 clients in the fields of energy, information technology, life sciences, nanotechnology, and aerospace. The BioHouston/BCC partnership is expected to complement the services of the Houston Technology Center.

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