As part of an ongoing effort to spur collaboration between industry and military medicine, the Air Force has set up an office at VelocityTX.
As part of the Pentagon ’s continuing efforts to spur collaboration between industry and military medicine, the Air Force has set up an office at VelocityTX to study the effects of traumatic brain injury.
With its new satellite, the 59th Medical Wing is the latest military organization to increase its presence at the East Side innovation hub that’s angling to open a $60 million dollar center to help military medicine “collide” with its civilian counterparts. Air Force researchers from the 59th, the unit that runs Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center at JBSA-Lackland, are joining colleagues from the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research at VelocityTX to study the effects of brain injury in cellular models. RELATED: VelocityTX angling to build East Side hub for military medical research with Defense Health Agency Both units have leased space at the nonprofit’s East Houston Street campus. “Increasingly, we hear from our military partners that collaboration with industry is critical to the DOD’s medical mission,” Rene Dominguez, VelocityTX president and CEO, said in a statement. “In helping the military work off-post, VelocityTX seeks to promote cross-sector partnership and drive economic activity that will create jobs and investment in San Antonio’s bioscience industry.” The Defense Health Agency, the massive bureaucracy that’s responsible for the military health system and has a large presence in San Antonio, also uses space at the campus for meetings between private firms and the military. It’s also been working toward a reorganization that could add several hundred jobs in the city. The Air Force began setting up its office and lab space in the fall, a VelocityTX spokesman said last week. The military said such off-base collaboration can help new technologies get to the battlefield more quickly. “Closer collaboration between military medical researchers and private sector innovators accelerates the process by which emerging technologies can be leveraged by the Department of Defense,” Dr. Debra Niemeyer, 59th Medical Wing chief scientist, said in a statement. “This initiative not only speeds innovation, it also ensures that our military medics and scientists are aware of the most advanced medical technologies and can quickly establish collaborations.” RELATED: In a first, Air Force seeks to tap San Antonio expertise to tackle its renovation to-do list Dominguez said the new Air Force office is a milestone in recruiting military medical research organizations to VelocityTX’s 12-acre campus. It’s part of the organization’s larger vision to develop a $60 million “military medical collision center” that would anchor a bigger development that could eventually create up to 2,400 jobs. Renderings of the roughly 100,000-square-foot center show a multistory building that would include office space, labs, a “sandbox” area to test equipment, an auditorium and parking. VelocityTX is planning for it to house about 150 workers. The center would anchor a development on the old G.J. Sutton site across East Houston Street from VelocityTX’s campus that could eventually include as much as 600,000 square feet of office, retail and green space. The Defense Health Agency is considering that proposal, which is separate from its efforts to consolidate its more than 3,000 employees working at sites across the city. RELATED: Air Force confirms consideration of Port San Antonio’s bid to build, host new cyber headquarters Military leaders have said the current setup is inefficient and that they’re looking to reorganize the agency’s local workforce into more centralized locations. City, county and JBSA officials have been in behind-the-scenes talks for the past few years about refreshing an old building at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston for some of the DHA workers. Along the way, the discussions have expanded to include other area players including VelocityTX and Port San Antonio. Those talks are ongoing.
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