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Healthcare and Life Sciences

Bay Area Houston Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry

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Bay Area Houston’s healthcare facilities offer world-class care as well as world-renowned research.

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Regional Overview

Houston is a nexus for cutting-edge health care facilities, research institutions, medical device manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals.

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The Houston metropolitan region offers an impressive healthcare system that offers numerous options to meet routine as well as specialized patient needs. Houston’s hospitals consistently rank among the nation’s top institutions. In addition, the region boast’s one of the nation’s most active life science research and entrepreneurial communities.

The BAHEP region offers excellent healthcare facilities and opportunities. The research, education, and business environment that support quality healthcare is equally robust and well-established. The BAHEP and Houston metro area:

  • Includes exemplary hospitals and hospital systems, health clinics, and first-tier academic and research facilities. World-class research and development are currently taking place in every key biotech cluster: agricultural, biomedical, oncology, environmental, genomics, medical devices and nanotechnology
  • Records the 10th highest rating in the world for the number of patents by city.
  • Includes the Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Center, a part of the Human Genome Project, which is the international consortium that completed the identification and order of 3 billion DNA letters that make up man’s 46 chromosomes.
  • Conducts leading-edge research at the Galveston National Laboratory at UT Medical Branch – Galveston. It is one of two National Bio-containment Laboratories constructed under grants awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease/National Institutes of Health (NIADH/NIH). Research at the lab focuses on therapies, vaccines, and diagnostic tests for naturally occurring emerging diseases.

Galveston Laboratory:

The Galveston National Laboratory (GNL) is a sophisticated, high containment research facility that serves as a critically important resource in the global fight against infectious diseases.  The GNL is located on the campus of the University of Texas Medical Branch and operates under the umbrella of UTMB’s Institute for Human Infections and Immunity.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) provides funding for the BSL4 laboratories and operations at the GNL, and the lab’s top priority is research to develop diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines to combat the most dangerous diseases in the world.