If you are interested in marketing to laboratory researchers, one of the best locations in the world is the Texas Medical Center in Houston. The Texas Medical Center is a state of the art facility known throughout the world for its patient care, teaching, research, and prevention of illness and injury.
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The center has an annual budget of 14 billion dollars. This is a collaborative medical complex with 54 member institutions comprised of 26 government agencies and 26 health related non-profit private institutions. The complex employs more than 90,000 people with 7,000 being scientists, researchers, and students. The campus sprawls over a massive 1,300 acres with 4.5 million square feet spread over 280 buildings. In fact, in 2011, the Houston facility received over 200 million in grants from the NIH.
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Texas Medical Center is on the fore-front of medical care and research by always seeking ways to improve itself. The center has recently appointed a new president, Giuseppe Colasurdo, M.D. to run this state of the art facility. Before this appointment Dr. Colasurado, had been serving as the Interim President since April 1, 2011. According to UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa, “It is critically important to have extraordinary leadership at our health institutions as the landscape of health care in our country undergoes transformational change. Dr. Colasurdo is an exemplary educator, administrator and clinician, and I have no doubt he is the right leader at the right time.”
Texas Medical Center, Houston is continuously improving its research facilities.
The Texas Medical center has just welcomed two new member institutions into it’s medical complex, increasing its number of member institutions to 54. The new institutions added are The Menninger Clinic and the University of Houston-Victoria School of Nursing. With these two institutions TMC adds more nursing and psychiatric services to its already high quality medical complex.
Moreover, the doors have just opened to a new medical center aimed at better serving the needs of its patients. The new facility is called the Digestive Disease Center and is located in the Memorial Hermann Medical Plaza. The center will be housed in a 22,000-square-foot, cutting edge, facility on the 14th floor. Its purpose is to diagnose and treat patients with all forms of digestive tract and liver disorders.
If interested in reading more about the Texas Medical Center, Houston please follow this link to our science market update blog.
Wish to create lasting relationships with researchers who are interested in seeing your companies products? Then, you can’t pass up this opportunity to be a part of the Houston BioResearch Product Faire™, situated at the Texas Medical Center, Houston.
At last years event we attracted 426 people interested in looking at life science laboratory products. Of those who attended 124 were purchasing agents, professors, post docs, as well as, 66 lab managers. A diverse set of researchers were attracted to our event from 54 different research buildings and 71 departments around campus. Moreover, with the popularity of our event among researchers we can expect to have the same attendee numbers next year.
If interested in participating at one of our other 60 nationwide university life science events please see our 2013 calendar. You can take advantage of our early pricing if you purchase a show more than 3 months before the events takes place.
If unable to attend the Houston BioResearch Product Faire™, here are some other shows your might be interested in.