NEWS & EVENTS
ABI welcomes Renue by Science and Revi Life Sciences
The ACC Bioscience Incubator is excited to welcome two new member companies: Renue by Science and Revi Life Sciences Renue By Science’s goal is to provide you with the highest quality, most extensive range of bioavailable longevity products at the...
Meet the people who run the lab!
This is the last post in our welcome series introducing you to the ACC Bioscience Incubator. Thanks for sticking along for the ride! Today, I thought we’d mix things up and have a conversation between myself and Shane, our Lab Coordinator. Shane handles the day-to-day...
Bioscience startups have a million-dollar problem…
Bioscience startups have a big challenge: How to do research, testing, and product dev on a budget. This means they often can’t access well-outfitted lab space and top-tier equipment. Of course, established multinational companies with eight-figure research budgets...
Meet The Students Who Turned Internships Into Biotech Jobs!
One of the most important things we do at the ACC Bioscience Incubator is to recruit ACC students, every year, who are crucial to keep this facility running smoothly. We give them hands-on lab experience, with actual startups and real scientific equipment that’s used...
Meet Two Austin Companies That Are Changing And Improving People’s Lives
Today, I want to introduce you to two Austin companies we have worked with that are doing impressive work. These companies embody our mission so powerfully. The first company I want to shout out is Everlum Bio. Everlum was founded by Casey McPherson in response to his...
Austin’s Only Bioscience Startup Incubator
Thank you for continuing to be part of the ACC Bioscience Incubator network! We haven't been great about sending updates, so we wanted to reintroduce you to the Bioscience Incubator and remind you what what we do and why we do it. Here’s what to expect: A series of...
ACC Bioscience Incubator Impact
The ACC Bioscience Incubator aims to have a positive role in the Austin community and the Bioscience ecosystem of our city. We aim to provide a space for companies to grow, boosting employment, and provide opportunities for students to learn. Here we present a few...
Everlum Bio tackles rare childhood diseases
200 million children live with a rare disease, but only 5% of those diseases have treatments available. ACC Bioscience Incubator member company Everlum Bio has set out to change these stats by developing proof-of-concept therapeutics for rare genetic diseases. Since...
Monoclonal Antibody Manufacture at Xbiotech with David Medina and Marcia McCallum
Monoclonal Antibody Manufacture at Xbiotech with David Medina and Marcia McCallum: Former ABI intern Marcia McCallum is back again on the Science in the Mall, Y'all #podcast, joining her supervisor David Medina, the Upstream Processing Manager at XBiotech USA, Inc.,...
BioBQ named by Bloomberg as one of “50 Startups That Rose as America Locked Down”
ACC Bioscience Incubator is proud that member company, BioBQ, is named by Bloomberg as one of 50 Startups That Rose as America Locked Down. Katie Kam and Janet Zoldan of BioBQ aim to be the first in the world to sell brisket and other barbecue meats, such as jerky,...
Bioscience Careers Galore! With Rodney and Mauricio
Bioscience Careers Galore! With Rodney and Mauricio: Listen on your favorite platform: YouTube // Acast// Spotify // Apple Podcasts // Google Podcasts Season 2, Episode 3: Mauricio Tellez + Dr. Rodney Rohde Part 1: Bioscience Careers Galore! Season 2, Episode 4:...
Student Successes! With Mauricio and Marcia
Student Successes! With Mauricio and Marcia: Dear Friends, We are excited to be launching Season 2 of ‘Science in the Mall, Y’all’. In our previous episodes, we have highlighted some of the companies here at the ACC Bioscience Incubator and the varied and impressive...
John Higley of EQO Wins Erie Hack Competition
"RNA was critical to the discovery of a coronavirus vaccine, and now the genetic messenger may be used to protect Lake Erie from harmful algal blooms." John Higley, CEO of member company EQO, and his competition team, RNA Power, have been awarded "the $30,000 top...
Learning to Fail
Anyone who has been following along on the journey of Austin Community College purchasing the entire Highland Mall and converting it to a community college campus will understand why I am so excited about it and why I keep...
BioBQ is 1 of 45 MassChallenge Finalists
ABI member company BioBQ is one of 45 MassChallenge finalists. BioBQ is a cultivated meat company, which means we grow meat using cells cultured in a clean facility, rather than from slaughtered animals. Based in Austin, Texas, known for BBQ, they aim to be the first...
All About Proteins with Erisyon
Detecting disease biomarkers: It’s very exciting to have access to so many interesting and innovative ways that people are addressing problems related to pandemic preparedness and global health security. Being on the founding team of TEXGHS (Science in the Mall,...
A Hope for Rare Disorders
A Milestone! Back when we first started our Science in the Mall, Y’all podcast to showcase the impressive work ABI member companies are doing, I was very excited to hear from Speragen. If you listened to that episode, you will remember that Speragen’s founder, Alice...
Bridging Sectors For Pandemic Readiness
Responding to and recovering from COVID-19: Global Health Security is a phrase that I’m hearing daily in my world. What does it mean? How do we accomplish it? As we start to come out of what has been a life-altering pandemic and the focus for the past 1.5 years has...
When Your Lungs Need Help (COVID Special)
It’s great to see that the number of people being vaccinated in Central Texas is high and resulting in a significantly lower number of COVID-19 cases. We know that there is still a large number of people who have not been vaccinated and figuring out a strategy for...
Rapid Testing – From Zika to COVID and Beyond
With the warming weather, comes mosquito season. I was hoping that the silver lining of the freeze in February would be the slow down or delay of their wrath, but it doesn’t appear that that’s happened. Only a few years ago, the idea of getting bitten by a mosquito...