NEWS & EVENTS
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
Detecting disease biomarkers: 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 inviting...
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...
Member Company Nuclein Raises $14M for Covid PCR Test
"Austin startup Nuclein might become known as the company that made an at-home Covid-19 test that's so easy you just spit in a can, press a button and wait about an hour for results. But this isn't the story of a startup built out of the current pandemic. Nuclein was...
The COVID-19 Vaccine – It’s Not a Shot in the Dark
Spring has sprung here in Texas. It’s kind of shocking how quickly it seemed to have appeared after such a devastating winter storm. There was so much damage and so much suffering, and while we were still scrambling to get food and water to those in need, it was 80...
A New Approach to Managing Opioid Addiction
Who would have thought that we would be close to a year since the last time we’ve seen each other in person? Usually, there would have been a networking event, an Incubator tour, a pitch competition, or somewhere where I run into those who want to keep up with the...
Member Company EQO Named 2020 Top 100 Startups
EQO brings molecular bio solutions to environmental bio problems. eDNA, eRNA, automated sampling, endangered species protection, invasive species eradication. See the complete list of 2020 Top 100 Startups
Motivation For a Cure with Alice McConnell of Speragen
Developing a drug for a disease is more complicated and arduous than you may think. It all starts with basic research on how the body works and uncovering the functionality of specific cellular pathways. Without that initial framework, it is difficult to see what...
Science in the Mall with Laura Bosworth of Tevido BioDevices
All great discoveries start as an idea in someone’s head and it requires a lot of time, energy, perseverance and help to actually get it into the hands of someone who will benefit from it. First, you have to convince yourself that it’s a good idea (not always as easy...
ABI & Partners Launch Consortium to Support Innovators Fighting COVID-19 and Future Pandemics
The Texas Global Health Security Innovation Consortium (TEXGHS) will work toward pandemic readiness, response, recovery and resiliency. A collaborative group of more than 50 organizations in the academic, public and private sectors has formed the Texas Global Health...
Battling Invasive Species with John Higley of EQO
Summer is squarely upon us and getting out into some cool water is one of the few activities that is somewhat condoned as acceptable during this unprecedented quarantine. But, just like last summer, the news is already starting to report the hazards of swimming due to...
A Message About COVID-19 from Macromoltek
Amidst an unprecedented pandemic, the entire world is in desperate need of treatments for the highly-infectious SARS-CoV-2 virus. When racing against such a rapidly-spreading disease, the speed of drug development is of the utmost importance. An effective therapeutic...
All About Antibodies
We had hoped that by now, we would have all resumed our normal lives and be back to doing what we do. Alas, as of this week, the cases of COVID-19 is on the rise. I know that we are all being inundated with information about the different types of tests and the...
Science in the Mall, Y’all
We spent 4 years building the successful Incubator that we have today. It has required becoming a part of the ever-growing life science ecosystem in Austin to ensure that we were serving an actual need to the community, as well as to ensure that we would have...
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...