CUBIO Innovation Center Launching New Biomedical in Houston
HOUSTON, Feb. 28, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- CUBIO Innovation Center started launching new biomedical companies in Houston's world-renowned Texas Medical Center, kicking off with an incubator competition worth $200,000 in start-up funds.
In every way, CUBIO Innovation Center allows bio-technologies in America's future biomedical "third coast" to flourish starting Day 1. The space offers both furnished co-working office areas and a dry lab space, and also work with a wet lab and animal lab for tissue cultures, centrifuges, microscopes, cold storage and animal testing.
Tenants will be uniquely positioned for international growth, as well. The Chinese-American founders aim to make Houston the epicenter for US - China cross-border collaboration, particularly in the healthcare, information technology and energy sectors.
The space also supports professional tenants looking for an advantageous office location, positioning their businesses with cross-border collaborators in the legal, financial and consultant fields.
Dr. Shautong Song, Manager Director of CUBIO, plans to direct much of his time ward connecting the start-ups with Chinese investors, big pharma companies, Chinese market opportunities, and various publicly-funded opportunities.
Recently, Dr. Song was a tenure-track assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine at the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, where he led a group researching cell therapies and cancer vaccines - his career-long passions.
"We have observed that innovation companies are eager to expand and connect with China's capital, market and related resources," Dr. Song said. "On the other side, the Chinese are eager to find new opportunities to work with biotech companies overseas."
The hardest part of getting started in a biotech venture: funding. CUBIO Innovation Center opened a call for proposals to incubate, which includes possible startup capital of $200,000, CUBIO residency including a workspace, laboratory bench and support from the CUBIO incubator mentorship program.
Miao Guo Smith, MBA, manages the marketing and operations for CUBIO.
"We saw the fit between CUBIO and our collaborative background," Smith said. "With our connections in the technology space, we recognized we could help both local biomedical start-ups and the Chinese investors. As a group of like-minded people, we believe innovation has no boundaries and it cannot be contained by a country or a nation."
With their goals in mind, the natural choice was Houston's Texas Medical Center, the largest medical center in the world. As Xconomy recently reported, the area's future TMC Translational Research campus, or TMC3, stands to make Houston the "third coast" of biomedical in America.
"As our primary focus is biomedical and the healthcare field, we see the TMC as a force for innovative projects and solutions around the globe," Smith said.
Apply for the incubator call for proposals at https://cubiohouston.com/call-for-proposal/.
ABOUT CUBIO INNOVATION CENTER
CUBIO is a healthcare incubator and innovative co-working space that provides healthcare innovators with access to a wide platform of lab infrastructure to refine their solutions and connections of U.S. innovation with the world's market resources and networks. Our mission is to provide an unparalleled platform to serve innovators' unmet needs in the biomedical field of the Texas and the world. Learn more at https://cubiohouston.com/.
Media Contact:
Miao Guo, Marketing and Operations Manager
CUBIO Innovation Center
(832) 491-0069
miao(dot)smith(at)cubiohouston(dot)com
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