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HSC Innovation Challenge grows with new partnerships 

The HSC Next Innovation Challenge is expanding to include employees in the JPS Health Network, and is partnering with Heartland Forward and Builders + Backers, national organizations that will manage and provide additional support and funding to the idea accelerator. Heartland Forward and Builders + Backers will continue The University of North Texas Health Science…
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Interest in Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth Accelerator Program rises as May 11 application deadline approaches

The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s unique partnership with Techstars and Goff Capital to create the Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth Accelerator has drawn significant interest from companies that want to participate in the first-of-its-kind collaboration. The interest in the program started when applications opened in late February, and the…
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Increasing innovation through storytelling

By Libby Maness Kendel Rogers is a storyteller. She brings people’s ideas and inventions to life. As the Outreach Specialist for HSC Next, she regularly engages with an impressive roster of innovators – students, scientists, clinicians, educators and entrepreneurs – from The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth and the Fort…
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Startups will be critical to Tarrant County’s economic recovery, study finds

By Alex Branch Startup businesses have a substantial impact on job creation in Tarrant County and could be a key to the recovery from the economic fallout of COVID-19, according to new research funded by The University of North Texas Health Science Center (HSC) at Fort Worth. New companies — defined as businesses zero to 1 year old — created 25,157 jobs in 2018 and more than 25,000 jobs in Tarrant County…
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Emerging biotech company to expand from Silicon Valley to The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth

By Diane Smith The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth will be a new home and primary area of growth for CAGE Bio Inc., a privately held clinical-stage company, currently a resident company at Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JLABS@MBC BioLabs. The company is expanding to Texas from California. The emerging biotech…
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UNTHSC launches podcast focused on Innovation in Fort Worth

By Alex Branch Want to hear an inspiring story of innovation in Fort Worth? Meet Cam Sadler. He was a Dunbar High School teacher who cashed in his retirement savings one summer and launched his own start-up company. A few months later, he was in Silicon Valley, the first Fort Worth start-up founder accepted into…
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‘The perfect time to think big’

By Alex Branch Rachel Miller’s transformation from physician assistant to CEO of her own Forth Worth startup company began as most entrepreneurial ideas do — she saw a problem to fix. Become an HSC Insider! Want to know more about our cutting-edge research, interprofessional education and health care offerings? On an Insider Tour you can:…
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National expert cites benefits of medical cannabis in lecture series

By Kerry Gunnels The growing interest in the use of cannabis for medical purposes is the result of a demand by patients for treatment options, a national expert on pain medicine says. “This is the result of a grassroots movement – sorry for the pun, but it’s true,” said Michael K. Moskowitz, MD, MPH, who…