Every year, thousands of patients from around the world travel to the Houston area for life-saving medical care. Houston is home to the Texas Medical Center, the world's largest medical complex, but the benefit extends beyond hands-on patient care. Thanks to the area's major hospitals and universities, Houston is one of the top regions in the world for medical research. People everywhere have benefited from research-based discoveries made — or inspired - by physicians and scientists in this field during the past few decades.
I believe the potential in the Houston area for expansion and commercialization in the field of biotechnology parallels - and may even surpass - the promise for commercializing research discoveries I observed in San Diego more than 25 years ago as an academic researcher.
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