{"id":37714,"date":"2016-01-08T20:33:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T20:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=37714"},"modified":"2016-01-08T20:33:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T20:33:27","slug":"acc-hosts-groundbreaking-for-biotech-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/01\/08\/acc-hosts-groundbreaking-for-biotech-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC hosts groundbreaking for biotech lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37715\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/01\/wetlabbanner.jpg\" alt=\"wetlabbanner\" width=\"600\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/01\/wetlabbanner.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/01\/wetlabbanner-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/01\/wetlabbanner-150x58.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Austin Community College will host a groundbreaking ceremony for its planned biotechnology commercialization incubator 10 a.m. Thursday, February 4, at ACC Highland.<\/p>\n<p>The highly specialized research facility, called the Advanced Commercialization ACCelerator (ACA), will be constructed in the former Highland Mall building.<\/p>\n<p>When it opens later this year, the facility will serve as an important resource for Central Texas\u2019 growing biomedical industry and address a critical shortage of research space in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an exciting opportunity for our students and our community partners,\u201d says Dr. Richard Rhodes, ACC president and CEO. \u201cACC has a long history of providing Central Texas industries the workforce and tools they need to prosper. This lab will take that commitment to a new level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ACA will lease wet lab space to companies developing products such as pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and provide education and real-world training to ACC\u2019s biotechnology students.<\/p>\n<p>ACC is the first community college in the state selected to build a wet lab incubator. The state of Texas awarded the college $4.9 million in construction funding through the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) Research Award Matching program.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Advanced Commercialization ACCelerator, contact facility director Dr. Tyler Drake at 512-223-7436 or <a href=\"mailto:tyler.drake@austincc.edu\">tyler.drake@austincc.edu<\/a>. For information about the groundbreaking, contact Dahlia Anzaldua-Torres at anzaldua@austincc.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College will host a groundbreaking ceremony for its planned biotechnology commercialization incubator 10 a.m. Thursday, February 4, at ACC Highland. The highly specialized research facility, called the Advanced Commercialization ACCelerator (ACA), will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/01\/08\/acc-hosts-groundbreaking-for-biotech-lab\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3932,"featured_media":37716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[716,717,135],"class_list":["post-37714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facstaff-news","tag-aca","tag-advanced-commercialization-accelerator","tag-wet-lab"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3932"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}