News & Events
ANN RICHARDS SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN LEADERS
Environmental Quality Operations (EQO), a start-up company focusing on the extermination of zebra mussels through a chimeric protein, offered a week-long internship for high school students, Madison Mueller and Maria Noonan, from Ann Richards School for Young Women...
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CONGRATULATIONS SOWJANYA!
We would like to congratulate our former Lab Technician Intern, Sowjanya Guthula! She accepted the Manufacturing Technician – GMP Upstream position with Molecular Templates, Inc. on January 13, 2020! Sowjanya began her internship with ABI in August 2018...
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MEET THE ABI INTERNS
Tina Arms is a native Austinite and a student at ACC. She decided to return to school and to figure out what to do for the rest of her life after starting a family at a young age. This led Tina to take a giant step after her youngest child left for college...
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January 2020 ABI Update
It’s hard to believe that we opened our doors 3 years ago. With the help of a state grant and tremendous support from the Austin Community College administration, the ACC Bioscience Incubator has become a huge success. Being the first and only leaseable...
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Member Company, Erisyon, wins UT Invention of the Year
'Cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart failure, diabetes and many other disorders are associated with unique proteins that can act as biomarkers, giving away the presence of disease. Detecting these proteins will help researchers diagnose diseases earlier and even...
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Member Company, EQO, featured on KVUE
'Researchers in Austin are currently working on a solution to remove zebra mussels from Central Texas lakes for good. The dime-sized creatures have infested area lakes, ultimately changing the ecosystems around them as they filter thousands of liters of...
read moreMember Company, Catalyst Education, named as finalist for MassChallenge Texas
'MassChallenge Texas has selected 14 finalists from a pool of 79 startups in its accelerator program, and three of them are based here in Austin. One of them, which we recently featured, is music tech startup Rhythmo. Founded by Ethan Jin, the startup’s...
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Newormics co-founder, Adela Ben-Yakar, featured by the American Institute of Physics
'Mechanical engineer Adela Ben-Yakar, at the University of Texas at Austin, collaborated with stem cell biologist Joshua Brickman, from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, to painstakingly develop an automated microfluidic device for the stable...
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Member Company, EQO, featured on KXAN
'Several dogs died after swimming in Lady Bird Lake and near Red Bud Isle. Analysts suspect toxins produced by blue-green algae blooms may be the cause. The city closed Red Bud Isle and has been warning dog owners not to let their pets swim in the lake...
read moreEQO listed as one of Austin Inno’s 2019 50 on Fire
'Invasive species mess up our ecosystem, and EQO is helping stop that with early detection of aquatic invasive species to help protect our lakes and rivers. Its revenues keep climbing, and it has landed investment from Central Texas Angel Network and...
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Member Company, Food and Ag Lab, featured in the Austin Chronicle
Local ACC-backed start-up fights the good fight for food safety and more 'Truth: One of the things that you never want to get, even in our obsessively acquisitive society, is Listeria. "Most people with invasive listeriosis require hospital care," notes...
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En Solución wins Future Food Disruptor of the Year award
'En Solucion, Inc., Austin, Texas, received a $25,000 cash prize and Future Food Disruptor of the Year award. The company was founded “to develop technology that can keep healthy food healthy,” said Kenton Harmer, c.e.o. of En Solucion.' Start-ups awarded...
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Lung Therapeutics, Inc. Raises $36 Million in Series C Financing
HUGE congrats to member company, Lung Therapeutics, on their $36 Million Series C financing to advance their clinical pipeline. Lung Therapeutics has been a member of ACC Bioscience Incubator since January 2018 and we are so proud of their success. Read...
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Food and Ag Lab earns accreditation for commercial biological testing
Member company, Food and Ag Lab, achieved A2LA Accreditation to the International Standard ISO/IEC 17025:201 for biological testing. Food and Ag Lab L.L.C. offers food processors food safety testing lab services, consulting and auditing. Companies use...
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Member company, EQO, featured on PBS
'Most of Austin’s drinking water comes from reservoirs like Lake Austin. A few years ago, those lakes became infested with an invasive species called zebra mussels, which has the potential to drastically change the water supply. EQO, an Austin based start-up, is...
read moreAlumni Company, Celling Biosciences, acquires rights to ThermiGen
'Celling Biosciences ("Celling"), based in Austin, Texas, acquired all the assets and stock of ThermiGen, the aesthetic device division of Spanish pharmaceutical leader Almirall. ThermiGen, founded in Dallas in 2012, commercializes a unique line of...
read moreACC President’s Podcast features Bioscience Incubator
Member Company, EQO, featured on CBS Austin
'John Higley, founder of EQO, Environmental Quality Operations, is working to control situations just like this with cutting edge technology. "I have a lot of hope that there is a way to cure this down the road. We're working on it," says Higley. Higley says zebra...
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Can Austin lead bioscience industry to collaborative, open future?
'When Austin Community College opened its Bioscience Incubator two years ago this week, there wasn’t much, if any, leasable lab space available in the city for small companies to develop ideas. It was a big risk, investing millions of dollars in equipment...
read moreLung Therapeutics Announces New Chief Financial Officer
'Lung Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for orphan, pulmonary indications, announced today the hiring of Charles T. Garner as Chief Financial Officer and the appointment of R.A. Session, II, to the...
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