NEWS & EVENTS
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...
Alumni 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...
ACC 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...
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...
Lung 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...
Macromoltek featured as one of the Women-Led Companies You Need to Check Out in Austin
'Co-founded by CEO Monica Berrondo and CTO Susana Kaufmann, this women-led company is set on revolutionizing antibody design. Macromoltek was initiated in 2010 with the aim of improving antibody drug development with the use of proprietary algorithms,...
New member company, En Solución
En Solución was awarded a 2018 Phase I SBIR grant from the FDA to pursue its research and development. They have joined ACC Bioscience Incubator to improve food safety through development of novel methods for cleaning and sanitizing. Learn more about the...
Welcome to Newormics: High-throughput and high-content screening devices for small model animals and 3D tissue organoids
We are happy to welcome Newormics to ACC Bioscience Incubator. Newormics is spinoff from the Femtosecond Laboratory in Dr. Ben-Yakar’s Group at the University of Texas at Austin. Newormics is a developer of the first high-throughput, high-content drug...
EQO wins MassChallenge TX $100K Diamond Award!
ACC Bioscience Incubator member company, Environmental Quality Operations (EQO), won the $100,000 Diamond Award from MassChallenge TX as part of the accelerator's inaugural cohort. This was MassChallenge TX's top prize, with EQO being selected out of...
Fabrico Technology receives SBIR awards
ACC Bioscience Incubator member company, Fabrico Technology, received SBIR Phase I and II Awards from the Department of Defense to develop new technologies with potential applications for stem cell treatment of traumatic brain injury & stroke, and...
ACC Bioscience Incubator is a part of Austin’s Capital City Innovation District!
Capital City Innovation's Health and Life Science Affinity Group is Austin’s premier network of health and life science business incubators. With over 100,000 square feet of lab, office, and coworking space the network provides access to shared equipment,...
Spring Internship Poster Session
We hosted a poster session highlighting the work of both 2-year and high school ACC biotech students. Students completed industry internships with local biotech and life science companies throughout central Texas. Check out the photo gallery below!...
Food and Ag Lab joins Bioscience Incubator
We'd like to welcome Food and Ag Lab to our incubator! Food and Ag Lab is an Austin-based startup offering testing and consulting services to the food and agriculture industry. They join as the 12th company to move into the Bioscience Incubator and we are...
NACCE Honors Five Community Colleges for Entrepreneurial Excellence
NACCE Honors Five Community Colleges for Entrepreneurial Excellence Source: NACCE Press Releases
NACCE Honors ACC for Bioscience Incubator
The National Association of Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE) named Austin Community College (ACC) as one-of-five community colleges institutions demonstrating entrepreneurial excellence at the Entrepreneurial College of Excellence Awards...