North Texas Tops List of Finalists for Biden’s Life Science Hub

The Biden administration wants to change the old dynamic and is in the midst of a competitive bidding process to establish three hubs to house and support the newly created Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to do for biotech and life sciences research what the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency did to jumpstart national research and security after the former Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite in the late 1950s. 

Dallas and a coalition of other Texas cities are making a serious play to be part of this revolutionary effort. Biomedical and life sciences advocates in Dallas, Austin and San Antonio alongside Lyda Hill Philanthropies recently pitched Pegasus Park, a rapidly growing biotech campus near Stemmons Freeway in Dallas, as the physical location of the federal agency’s“customer experience hub.” This hub is expected to fund, attract and assist in clinical trials with patient populations and collect outcomes data for future research. A second hub in the Washington, D.C., area will work with government officials on policy. A third hub in an as-yet-unnamed site will focus on bringing products to market.