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Volume 13 | Issue 11
Inside This Issue
November Edition 2023
Opening Of TMC3 Collaborative Building Marks Launch of Helix Park, A 37-Acre Campus Fostering Innovation In Health Care And Life Science By Cameron Johnson
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exas Medical Center (TMC), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Texas A&M Health), and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) today celebrated the opening of the TMC3 Collaborative Building and the launch of Helix Park. “Today, we lay the cornerstone of a new campus fully dedicated to streamlining the commercialization of life-changing innovations in medicine and technologies,” said William McKeon, president and CEO of TMC. The 250,000 square-foot TMC3 Special guest, officials and keynote speakers gathered for the TMC3 Grand Opening Celebration at Helix Park in Collaborative Building is located at the Houston on Oct. 26, 2023 heart of Helix Park and incorporates research initiatives for the four as we come together to officially open deliver game-changing therapies for founding institutions. Designed to the TMC3 Collaborative Building,” the toughest diseases impacting Texans foster collaboration between academic said Peter WT Pisters, MD, president, and citizens worldwide,” said John institutions and industry partners, MD Anderson. “Our clinicians and Sharp, Chancellor of The Texas A&M the building includes University System. purpose-built wet laboratories “Texas A&M Health’s and office/co-working space Founding Institutions Celebrate the Institute of Biosciences to facilitate the seamless and Technology has Opening Of The 250,000-Square-Foot long been a trailblazer exchange of life science ideas and advancements. In Building, And Highlight Potential in drug discovery, addition, the building will now, in the heart Impacts For The Future Of Research, and host commercial life sciences of this resource-rich Discovery And Patient Care companies including Portal ecosystem of the Texas Innovations, as well as the Medical Center, we’re TMC Venture Fund. taking it up a notch. “We are incredibly excited to both scientists work daily to advance By positioning our scientists near their welcome our founding institutions and innovations in cancer research and peers and esteemed clinicians, we’re industry partners to the Collaborative care—all of which will be amplified in igniting a spark that will fuel innovation Building and to invite the community this new environment within Helix Park and forge dynamic research programs.” to experience the Helix Park campus that further cultivates collaboration, “With a shared commitment and its beautiful parks with a series of connectivity and creativity.” to improving the health and well-being “As we open this state-of-the-art of individuals and communities, we special events in the months ahead,” facility, we’re opening the door to a are bringing together academics and McKeon said. “The future of life sciences in new era of collaboration. This building industry to accelerate discovery and Houston is brighter than ever before signifies the dismantling of silos to see TMC3 ...page 14
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