TMDA Save the Date
Meeting October 20
Please plan to join us for the next TMDA meeting on October 20, 2022. Topic for the meeting is Reimbursement: How to get a New Reimbursement Code.
The meeting will be in-person at Maestro Logistics from 3pm to 4pm CT with a networking Happy Hour after the presentations.
More details to come!
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SPOTLIGHT
Medical Product Outsourcing’s conference series—the MPO Summit—has provided the medtech industry with the most comprehensive programs for more than 15 years. This year, the MPO Summit returns to Austin, Texas, and will simultaneously highlight the appeal of the region for medtech while tackling a number of the most significant issues for today’s medical device companies.
This interactive networking and educational event will partner local experts with out-of-state industry thought leaders—OEMs, contract manufacturers, suppliers, consultants, members of the investment community, and academia—for a unique forum to discuss critical industry topics and offer tools to compete and grow in today’s challenging business climate.
For questions, please contact Howard Revitch, group publisher, at 201-965-5116 or [email protected], or Sean Fenske, editor-in-chief, at [email protected].
UPCOMING EVENTS
Local Events
2022 BioMedSA Award for Innovation in Healthcare & Bioscience
The BioMedSA Award for Innovation in Healthcare and Bioscience celebrates local and national innovators in the healthcare and bioscience industry, including patient care, education, research and development, leadership, public policy and medical technology.
In 2022, the Innovation Award will be presented at a formal dinner in San Antonio, where healthcare and bioscience industry leaders can come together to celebrate healthcare innovation. The dinner will highlight and contribute to the collaborative spirit of the life science industry in San Antonio. Old associations will be rekindled in person and new relationships formed as industry leaders interact during the social hour preceding the dinner and the networking time after the dinner.
UT Austin College of Natural Sciences Technology & Science Career Fair IN PERSON
The fair offers employers a great opportunity to meet diverse undergraduate and graduate students from all majors, promote your open positions, and build your brand with UT Austin students.
ATC Unplugged: Learning from the Past to Prepare for the Future
NASA’s Lessons Learned Program was designed to educate new generations of NASA engineers on mistakes of the past in order to prevent future accidents, a lesson that can be taken to heart across industries involving teamwork by highly specialized teams.
Get the Most Bang for Your Benefits
In this Austin Tech Roundtable, experts from Excel Benefits will share advice on how employers can look outside the box to pick and design plans that meet employee needs and promote workforce wellness, while protecting their bottom line.
Institute for Biomedical Entrepreneurship (IBE)
The IBE is a non-profit celebrating 5 years of helping entrepreneurs accelerate the flow of ideas to the marketplace. The IBE program is a 5 day experiential program that includes a mix of classroom work and hands on project work. Advisors work with participants over the 5 day program to develop and refine their pitch and present to an investor panel on the final day. Since its inception, the IBE has helped over 40 companies launch and over 50 corporate projects see success in the marketplace.
UT Austin College of Natural Sciences Technology & Science Career Fair VIRTUAL
The fair offers employers a great opportunity to meet diverse undergraduate and graduate students from all majors, promote your open positions, and build your brand with UT Austin students.
2022 iC3 Life Science Summit
The BioNTX iC³ Life Science Summit serves as the forum where leaders come together to discuss strategy, exhibit the broad spectrum of North Texas bioscience research, and where the latest innovation, products and services can be seen. Attendees range from the startup community through large multinationals representing industry sectors such as biotech, pharmaceuticals, healthcare companies, academic research institutions, innovators, and leaders. Also attending will be business development executives, vendor partners, investors, and talent seeking new opportunities.
Webinars & Virtual Events
Clinical Considerations for Software and AI/Machine Learning
Innovate smarter and not harder by taking key considerations including when an AI solution may be needed and identifying appropriate research questions and best practices for engineering and deploying the model effectively based on industry and the FDA’s SaMD (Software as a Medical Device) regulation guidance.
Join Proxima Clinical Research’s subject matter expert, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Isabella Schmitt, MBA, RAC, who will expand on clinical considerations for software and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). For all of those interested in learning about this timely topic, register for this free, in-depth webinar now!
Driving Value from Tax: Cash Incentives Available to Texas Life Sciences Companies
Join us to learn about Federal and State incentives available for companies in the life sciences industry.
Biostatistics in IVD Clinical Research – Decoding the Biostatistical Black Box
During this webinar, NAMSA’s Principal IVD Biostatistician will examine the benefits of including biostatistics early and often in a clinical trial, provide insight on how to prevent unnecessary delays and walk through two real-world case studies.
Redefining Early Stage Investments (RESI) Boston Conference
The Redefining Early Stage Investments (RESI) conference series connects start-ups and early-stage investors and strategic channel partners. RESI maximizes fundraising companies’ efforts to find partners who are a fit for their technology and stage of development. RESI is uniquely cross-border and cross-domain, connecting start-ups with 10 categories of global investors across the silos of drugs, devices, diagnostics and digital health (4 Ds). RESI caters to both the earliest stage start-ups, those seeking grants, seed and angel capital, and the early-stage firms who seek series A and B funding. RESI is a unique and powerful tool for sourcing assets and advancing innovation across early-stage life science and healthcare.
Local News
CPRIT Oversight Committee Approves Over $89 Million in Grants
The Oversight Committee of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), approved a large slate of awards totaling over $89 million for cancer research, prevention and product development.
“The awards approved today by the Oversight Committee illustrate the depth and breadth of CPRIT’s impact in the Texas fight against cancer,” said CPRIT CEO Wayne Roberts. “From recruitment grants bringing the brightest cancer researchers to Texas, to supporting lifesaving prevention programs across the state and providing critical investments in developing new cancer-fighting drugs, CPRIT touched all the bases for a home run against cancer.”
Apply to Pitch at the Texas Life Science Forum
If you are a life science entrepreneur who would like to pitch in front of 400+ venture capitalists, corporate innovation groups, angel networks, industry leaders, academics and service providers, then the 11th Annual Texas Life Science Forum is for you!
The Texas Life Science Forum is the premier networking event for life science businesses in Texas. Hosted by BioHouston and Rice Alliance for Technology, it brings together venture capitalists, corporate innovation groups, angel networks, industry leaders, academics and service providers throughout the country to network with the Houston region life sciences community.
INDUSTRY RESOURCES
ICH Q10 toolkit
A collection of helpful resources for pharmaceutical quality professionals, designed to help them interpret, understand and work towards the requirements of ICH Q10, the international guidelines for the modern pharmaceutical quality system (PQS).
ISO 13485 toolkit
A bundle of helpful resources for medical device quality professionals. Contains everything you need to understand and apply the requirements of ISO 13485, the core international medical device quality management standard.
Apply to Eosera’s Pitch Competition for a Chance to win $10,000
Elyse Stoltz Dickerson, CEO of Eosera, Inc., got her start by winning a pitch competition which helped propel her business forward in the early days. Now, Eosera wants to pay it forward and give another female-led, Texas-based, smart, young company the same opportunity. With the help of our incredible partners, we are offering $10,000 to one lucky winner at the pitch event in November.
Expanding Your Market: Submitting U.S. EUA COVID-19 Products for EU IDVR Compliance
Access NAMSA’s latest White Paper, “Expanding your Market: Submitting U.S. EUA COVID-19 Products for EU IVDR Compliance,” as we discuss how to select the best strategy for IVDR compliance, the necessary steps to enter the EU market in an accelerated manner, and how to apply these certification processes to other devices.
Understanding FDA’s Special 510(k) Program
When medical devices are modified by the manufacturer, those changes still need to be evaluated by FDA, with the same reason as a new device: to protect the safety of patients and promote greater public health.
So, where do manufacturers turn when updating their own medical device? The answer is with a Special 510(k). Read this week’s featured blog post to learn about this program and how you can leverage it for your device
Austin Community College
Austin Community College biotechnology or computer science interns are available Email Kathryn Naughton for more information
BioNTX Job Board
Career Connections
We equip underserved jobseekers with 21st-century skills and connect them to Digital Marketing careers across the US. With a focus on underserved communities, we amplify the online presence of small businesses, while launching the careers of jobseekers.
The Global Medical Device Job Board
What if, there was a one-stop shop for candidates and companies looking for top medical device opportunities and talent, worldwide Increase your network with more than 150,000 medical device industry professionals to access exclusive top talent and list incredible jobs in the medical device industry. The job board will always be free to job seekers, and hiring companies will receive their first 90 days of unlimited job postings free.
Abbott
Multiple Positions
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Aeglea Biotherapeutics
Multiple positions
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ALKU
Multiple positions
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AMDM IVD Job Board
https://www.amdm.org/jobs.html
Asuragen
Multiple Positions
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Austin Technology Council (ATC) Jobs
https://www.austintechnologycouncil.org/jobs/
Babylon Health
Multiple Positions
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Black Diamond Networks
Multiple Positions
www.blackdiamondnet.com
Commissioning Agents (CAI)
Multiple Positions
https://cagents.com/careers
FDA Quality and Regulatory Consultants (FDAQRC)
Luminex
Multiple Positions
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Molecular Templates
Multiple positions
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Nuclein
Multiple Positions
www.nuclein.com/careers/
Skills Alliance
Multiple positions
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Syneos Health
Multiple positions
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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
University of Texas at Austin, Department of Molecular Biosciences
BioAustinCTX Seeking Grant Writing Volunteers
• Determines grant proposal concept by identifying and clarifying opportunities and needs, studying requests for grant proposals (RFPs), and attending strategy meetings.
• Prepares grant proposals by determining concept, gathering and formatting information, writing drafts, and finalizing.
• Supported by the BioAustinCTX Board
BioAustinCTX Seeking Volunteers
UT needs your help
Austin Chamber Talent Ambassador program
We partner with nearby businesses who offer learning opportunities (guest speakers, internships, apprenticeships, etc.), and connect them to local schools, post-secondary institutions, and those facing barriers to employment.
BioAustinCTX
We are seeking volunteers to help collect and compile data to map the healthcare landscape in Austin. If interested, please fill our volunteer form.
TEXAS LIFE SCIENCE ORGANIZATIONS
ATX Women in MedTech
Austin Technology Council
Austin Health Tech Meetup
Austin Technology Incubator (ATI)
Beam Founders
BioAustinCTX LinkedIn Group
BioMed San Antonio
BioNorthTX
Capital City Innovation (CCI)
Central Texas Angel Network
Health Technology Forum Meetup
Bio El Paso-Juarez
Health Wildcatters, Dallas
Austin Chamber of Commerce
BioHouston
Texas Healthcare and Bioscience Institute (THBI)
Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio
Texas Health Catalyst
Texas Medical Device Alliance (TMDA)
TMDA LinkedIn Group
The Health Cell, San Antonio
TMCX/TMCX+, Houston
Top Austin-Area Medical Device Companies
Velocity Texas, San Antonio
Women in Bio-Texas (WIB-TX, Austin & Houston)
STAR Park
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