BioBridge Global is a San Antonio, Texas-based nonprofit corporation that offers diverse services through its subsidiaries – the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, QualTex Laboratories, GenCure and the Blood & Tissue Center Foundation.
Funded by
MTEC grant
Collaborating Institutions
U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Coagulation and Blood Research,
StemBioSys,
RoosterBio
BioBridge Global has been named one of two Prototype of the Year Award winners by the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) for work done following a $7.8 million MTEC grant for the development of large-scale manufacturing capabilities for clinical-grade adult stem cells.
The award was presented at the MTEC Annual Meeting on March 4.
BioBridge Global is a San Antonio, Texas-based nonprofit corporation that offers diverse services through its subsidiaries – the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, QualTex Laboratories, GenCure and the Blood & Tissue Center Foundation.
Principal Investigator(s)
Jack Hager
Collaborating Institutions
Abbott
QualTex Laboratories, a subsidiary of San Antonio-based nonprofit BioBridge Global, has begun testing blood and plasma donations on its second automated track system, expanding its capabilities in its San Antonio laboratory.
BioBridge Global is a San Antonio, Texas-based nonprofit corporation that offers diverse services through its subsidiaries – the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, QualTex Laboratories, GenCure and the Blood & Tissue Center Foundation.
Collaborating Institutions
Trauma Hemostasis & Oxygenation Research,
U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research,
Mayo Clinic,
Terumo BCT
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center (STBTC) approval to manufacture and distribute cold-stored platelets with a shelf life of 14 days for the treatment of actively bleeding patients when conventional platelets are not available, or their use is not practical.
Platelets are a key blood component constantly in demand for treating severe bleeding, for example in trauma and maternal hemorrhage patients.
BioBridge Global is a San Antonio, Texas-based nonprofit corporation that offers diverse services through its subsidiaries – the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, QualTex Laboratories, GenCure and the Blood & Tissue Center Foundation.
Principal Investigator(s)
Scott Jones,
Anand Srinivasan
Development of new analytical assays which determine the potency of human mesnenchymal stromal cells and other cells utilized for cell therapies.
BioBridge Global is a San Antonio, Texas-based nonprofit corporation that offers diverse services through its subsidiaries – the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, QualTex Laboratories, GenCure and the Blood & Tissue Center Foundation.
Principal Investigator(s)
Jennifer Wehmeyer
Development of amniotic membrane products that are sterilized using supercritical carbon dioxide (SCCO2) instead of traditional gamma irradiation.
BioBridge Global is a San Antonio, Texas-based nonprofit corporation that offers diverse services through its subsidiaries – the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, QualTex Laboratories, GenCure and the Blood & Tissue Center Foundation.
Principal Investigator(s)
Anand Srinivasan
Development of a xeno-free growth factor supplement derived from expired human blood.
BioBridge Global is a San Antonio, Texas-based nonprofit corporation that offers diverse services through its subsidiaries – the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, QualTex Laboratories, GenCure and the Blood & Tissue Center Foundation.
Principal Investigator(s)
Samantha Gomez Ngamsuntikul
Rachel Beddard
Previously, South Texas Blood & Tissue Center discarded apheresis platelets with a yield of < 3 x 1011 platelets. The center started a program to add low-yield platelets to their inventory, increasing apheresis platelet supply by 193 in a 12-month inventory.
BioBridge Global is a San Antonio, Texas-based nonprofit corporation that offers diverse services through its subsidiaries – the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, QualTex Laboratories, GenCure and the Blood & Tissue Center Foundation.
Principal Investigator(s)
Samantha Gomez Ngamsuntikul
Rachel Beddard
South Texas Blood & Tissue Center performed annual retesting of low titer O whole blood donors. On retest, only 4.10% tested as high titer. The data indicate that isoagglutinin titers do not dramatically change over time, but additional data is needed to verify this trend and to determine if there is a difference in conversion to high titer status when age and ethnicity are considered.
BioBridge Global is a San Antonio, Texas-based nonprofit corporation that offers diverse services through its subsidiaries – the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, QualTex Laboratories, GenCure and the Blood & Tissue Center Foundation.
Principal Investigator(s)
Rogelio Zamilpa
Collaborating Institutions
StemBioSys
Completed
Develop a process to isolate MSCs from human umbilical cord blood units
BioBridge Global is a San Antonio, Texas-based nonprofit corporation that offers diverse services through its subsidiaries – the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, QualTex Laboratories, GenCure and the Blood & Tissue Center Foundation.
Principal Investigator(s)
Rogelio Zamilpa
Develop a process to isolate and characterize human umbilical cord blood plasma
