Fort Worth’s, Rainwater Charitable Foundation (RCF), one of the largest independent funders of neurodegenerative research to empower field-advancing programs, resources, and breakthrough discoveries for primary tauopathies, has announced the recipients …
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Zhijian “James” Chen, Ph.D., a professor of molecular biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, is receiving the 2026 Japan Prize in Life Sciences. Recognized as one of the world’s top …
Carrollton-based Gradalis, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing personalized anti-cancer therapies, has named Steven D. Weinstein as its new chief executive officer. Weinstein brings more than 20 years as a …
Fort Worth-based NanOlogy, LLC, a clinical-stage oncology company, has named veteran biopharma executive David Arthur as its new chief executive officer. Arthur becomes the company’s chief executive as NanOlogy moves …
UT Southwestern Medical Center will get up to $25 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to create fully functional, patient-specific artificial livers that could ease the …
UTA and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station have opened a new biomanufacturing training and research hub at Pegasus Park focused on workforce training and early-stage biotech development. The National …
Dallas-area researchers–two from the University of Texas at Dallas, and one from UT Southwestern Medical Center–have earned three of the five 2026 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Awards from TAMEST (Texas …
Stopping cancer before it starts is the aim of a new prevention-first approach from the Dallas-based Cancer Prevention Initiative (CPI) and Lyda Hill Philanthropies, which committed a $750,000 matching challenge …
The University of Texas at Arlington has landed a $1.84 million federal grant to study how the body’s immune defenses can sometimes go wrong, and how that knowledge could help …
Curve Biosciences founder and CEO, Plano-born Ritish Patnaik, says “chronic diseases are on the rise, and healthcare costs are skyrocketing as a result.” From its newly established HQ at Pegasus …