BioMedSA services

Pre-clinical studies are conducted in San Antonio using a variety of animal models. The Southwest National Primate Research Center at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute houses over 2,500 nonhuman primates including over 1,000 baboons, making it the world’s largest colony of baboons available for internal and contracted biomedical research. The US Army Institute for Surgical Research and the 59th Medical Wing conduct internal and sponsored studies with rodents, rabbits, swine, and ruminants. Bridge PTS specializes in contracted testing services to support wound healing, infection control/biofilm, and surgical method research and regulatory submissions using rabbits, swine, and rodents.

San Antonio is home to premier research organizations and numerous research centers. The foundation of the non-profit research community is comprised of: Texas Biomedical Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), who have also joined together to form the San Antonio Partnership for Precision Therapeutics (SAPPT). SAPPT has recently published a guide to their work. For information on UTSA’s facilities available to assist companies with their research, click here. UT Health San Antonio maintains a bio-specimen bank and a database of researchers and their research areas. SwRI’s bioscience research program includes: computational biomedicine, biomedical devices and biomechanics, and pharmaceutical development.