New Center for Cell and Organ Biotech Planned

HOUSTON-The local Texas Heart Institute has teamed with Texas A&M University of College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in College Station, TX, to create the Center for Cell and Organ Biotechnology. The center will be located in Houston, and is being funded, in part, by the State of Texas’ Emerging Technology Fund to the tune of $3 million.

The new center will be led by Doris Taylor, director of regenerative medicine research at THI. The new center will take a multi-faceted approach to chronic disease for both human and veterinary health care, based on cell and organ failure and will include scientists, engineers, physicians, veterinarians and business managers from both THI and Texas A&M.