Temple, Texas, located an hour north of Austin on Interstate 35, is uniquely positioned within Texas and in the US in that it is home to a number of centers for state-of-the-art healthcare services, advanced health education, and cutting edge biomedical and agricultural research. Those entities include:
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For more than 30 years, these entities have forged innovative public-private, state and federal collaborations in Temple, Texas, Yielding several nationally prominent programs and institutes, including:
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By combining both the human health and agri-bioscience components, these partnerships have become a catalyst for future biotechnology development in the Central Texas region. With a population base of over 500,000 and proximity to Austin's technology infrastructure and Ft. Hood, the largest Army installation in the free world, the vision to create a multi-disciplinary Research Park is rapidly becoming a reality. With this vision in mind, Temple leadership engaged Texas State law makers to successfully enact legislation to create The Temple Health & Bioscience Economic Development District, the first such entity in the State of Texas.
"My vision for Temple has always been the creation of a center for biotechnology." Dr. George Kozmetsky, founder of Teledyne Corporation, former Dean, Graduate School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin, founder of IC2 Institute and "father" of the Austin Technology Incubator. |
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