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UT HEALTH

TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATOR

WILL PREVENT GOOD IDEAS

FROM GOING TO WASTE

By William L. Henrich, MD, MACP, President and Professor of Medicine, UT Health San Antonio

Medical breakthroughs are the result of arduous research and or diabetes or heart disease because of a complicated process to get
great effort, but if they are never translated into new therapies, them in the hands of physicians for the benefit of their patients.
drugs or treatments, they benefit no one. Precious time lost could mean precious lives lost.
In the field of biomedical research, ideas are especially precious, To this end, UT Health San Antonio in April announced Tech-
for who knows which one could hold the cure for a vexing disease? Novum, a technology commercialization accelerator. TechNovum
As a society, we cannot afford to lose possible solutions for cancer starts with the germ of an idea, and accelerates, or compresses, the

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