NEWS & EVENTS
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Member 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...
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...
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...
EQO 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...