{"id":192672,"date":"2025-09-01T23:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/192672\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T23:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:28:14","slug":"texas-am-fort-worth-answers-questions-about-future-biomedical-repository","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/192672\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&M-Fort Worth answers questions about future biomedical repository"},"content":{"rendered":"

A shared biomedical repository is on the way for downtown Fort Worth next year, and industry leaders are convening to bring clarity and insight for the project.<\/p>\n

The repository, which will include public institutions and private businesses alike, will see a shared innovation hub that hosts tissue samples and data storage at the Texas A&M-Fort Worth campus. The biobank will be the first of its kind for the North Texas region.<\/p>\n

Texas A&M-Fort Worth held an event in downtown Fort Worth on Aug. 28, which saw representatives from regional industry leaders attend. The keynote speaker, Anke Maitland-van der Zee, is the head of the department of genetics at the University Medical System Groningen. She helped start a similar medical repository in 2021 called P4O2 in the Netherlands.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On top of sharing P4O2\u2019s work over the past four years, Maitland-van der Zee spoke about some of the lessons she learned over the first couple years heading the institution.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She said the repository helps bridge private and public institutions, which \u201care still two separate silos,\u201d into a shared scientific space. She also noted the importance of being able to meet the companies where they are at to help bring their investment to the table.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so important not just to talk and tell your enthusiastic research story \u2014 they like that, they\u2019re happy to listen. But you need to think, \u2018What do they want, what\u2019s in it for them,\u2019\u201d Maitland-van der Zee said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After the presentation, members of the crowd \u2014 from individuals in academia like Texas A&M University and Texas Christian University to industry leaders in hypersonic aerodynamics \u2014 asked Maitland-van der Zee questions ranging from ones about P4O2\u2019s work to the structural challenges.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After the event, Jon Hockenyos, an economic development consultant for the Texas A&M System, said the idea for the biobank hatched about 18 months ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As Texas A&M was looking at building the law school downtown, Hockenyos said the university started speaking with local leadership to see what other projects were worth investing in. Hockenyos said a biobank \u201ckept coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe feedback from our industry partners has been, \u2018Man, if you get this right, we\u2019re happy to play, because it\u2019s a force multiplier for us,\u2019\u201d Hockenyos said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cook Children\u2019s Medical Center, Texas Health Resources, Baylor Scott & White Health and JPS Health Network are all \u201cheavily involved\u201d in the process of creating the biobank, said Nina B. Petty, who works in a dual role for Texas A&M School of Law and the Fort Worth Tarrant County Innovation Partnership.<\/p>\n

Hockenyos said the biobank should be operational early next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Planned innovation hubs will span a slew of other industries at the Texas A&M-Fort Worth campus, including aerospace, agriculture, entrepreneurship, workforce education, and media and entertainment. The Fort Worth-Tarrant County Innovation Partnership<\/a>, which is working with the university, met with over 100 industry leaders earlier this year<\/a> to further develop ideas.<\/p>\n

Disclosure: Texas A&M-Fort Worth has been a financial supporter<\/a> of the Fort Worth Report. At the Fort Worth Report, news decisions are made independently of our board members and financial supporters. Read more about our editorial independence policy here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ismael M. Belkoura is the health reporter for the Fort Worth Report. Contact him at ismael.belkoura@fortworthreport.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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