The area just east of downtown San Antonio is now in the heart of what’s being called the Life Science Innovation District.
Becky Cap, a founding director of GenCure, said stem cells and immune cells undergo genetic reprogramming to deliver specialized therapies.“It’s using the body’s own defenses against disease to treat the diseases that we have today,” Cap said.
Harig said he wants to assure the East Side community none of what Co-Labs develops is hazardous to them or the environment.Harig said he is well aware Co-Labs is new to the neighborhood, which is why it’s been reaching out to political and religious leaders, neighborhood groups, and schools. He said it also has STEM programs in many of those schools, educating its employees of the future.
In hopes of filling specific jobs in the future, Harig said, “We will have a training component for all age people.” Just up the street from their new neighbor, Myrtle Stout said her mother has lived in the same house for more than 40 years. Along with new people moving into recently renovated homes and the new condominiums being built, Stout said she would never have dreamed a company would invest a billion dollars in the East Side.About the Authors:Jessie Degollado has been with KSAT since 1984. She is a general assignments reporter who covers a wide variety of stories. Raised in Laredo and as an anchor/reporter at KRGV in the Rio Grande Valley, Jessie is especially familiar with border and immigration issues.
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