• SPOTLIGHT: Strategic Plan Update

    SPOTLIGHT: Strategic Plan Update

       Under the leadership of President/CEO Dr. Larry Schlesinger and Executive Vice Presidents Dr. Joanne Turner and Bruce Edwards, Texas Biomed embarked on a journey in 2017 to establish…

  • SPOTLIGHT: Biomed Briefs

    SPOTLIGHT: Biomed Briefs

       SECRETS OF A CRITICAL SCHISTOSOMIASIS DRUG UNLOCKED For decades, no one really knew how the drug praziquantel treated schistosomiasis, a parasitic worm infection afflicting more than 200 million…

  • Regaining Momentum Beyond COVID-19

    Regaining Momentum Beyond COVID-19

    While tackling COVID-19, Texas Biomed never lost sight of the world’s most notorious killers: HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.      When COVID-19 arrived on the scene, the Texas Biomed…

  • FOCUS: National Primate Research Centers turn 60

    FOCUS: National Primate Research Centers turn 60

    Southwest National Primate Research Center is proud to be part of the success of the national network established in the 1960s.  The National Primate Research Centers (NPRCs), which are…

  • FOCUS: SNPRC’s Commitment to Care

    FOCUS: SNPRC’s Commitment to Care

    The Southwest National Primate Research Center (SNPRC) is committed to not just meeting, but exceeding, the highest standards of research animal care. Recent inspections from federal regulators and…

  • PROFILE: Meet Veterinarian Shannan Hall-Ursone

    PROFILE: Meet Veterinarian Shannan Hall-Ursone

    From the time she was a child, Shannan Hall-Ursone, DVM, loved animals. “My mother was an elementary science teacher,” explains Dr. Hall-Ursone, who grew up in Pennsylvania and New…