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UTD Contributes to the Growth of North Texas Life Sciences
Posted April, 2026
A research laboratory inside the Bioengineering and Sciences Building on the campus of The University of Texas at Dallas.
The University of Texas at Dallas has been providing intellectual capital to North Texas for decades. In the last 15 years, it has put a special emphasis on graduating students who can enhance the region’s growing life sciences and biotechnology ecosystem —and the business world has taken notice. Whether it’s Texas Instruments contributing to new UTD biomedical research facilities, or business publication Bisnow quoting Director of Economic Development Jenny Mizutowicz, UT Dallas is sought out for expertise and leadership in fulfilling North Texas’ biotech aspirations.
Foreseeing the DFW Metroplex’s future needs, the University established a Department of Bioengineering in 2009, and granted its first biomedical engineering degrees in 2014. Now, that department’s graduates number in the hundreds. In addition to majors such as biomedical sciences and biomedical engineering, UT Dallas now offers certificates in biomedical sciences, to prepare UTD graduates from a variety of majors to make important contributions in cross-disciplinary biotechnology teams.
People are getting these degrees to go work at biotech companies, to design medical devices, to go produce pharmaceuticals.
— Jenny Mizutowicz in Bisnow Magazine
March 31, 2026
In 2012, UT Dallas brought together researchers from engineering, brain sciences, and the natural sciences to create the Texas Biomedical Device Center (TxBDC [Texas Biomedical Device Center] ,) a group dedicated to developing technologies that address neurological damage. TxBDC [Texas Biomedical Device Center] moved into the newly-built 220,000-square-foot Bioengineering and Sciences Building —a research facility housing bioengineering, neuroscience, biology and chemistry programs— in 2016. More recently, The University ot Texas Southwestern Medical Center and The University of Texas at Dallas came together to open the Texas Instruments Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Building in 2023, a five-story laboratory facility in the middle of the Dallas Medical District that has become a place where engineers, doctors and researchers can colaborate on bringing high-tech medical advances to the market.
UT Dallas professors and researchers have published peer-reviewed biomedical engineering papers, participated in successful clinical trials, and received research grants. The University has spun several advanced biomedical technologies into manufacturing companies. UTD’s students are ready to take on the world, with a team of Comets winning gold at the 2025 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM [International Genetically Engineered Machine] ) Grand Jamboree in Paris.
Between North Texas’ business environment, resources, open space and educational institutions such as UT Dallas, the DFW Metroplex has become a very attractive place to set up a bioengineering operation. The University has been an important contributor to the growth of this industry in the area. UTD’s value as a biomedical research partner and pipeline of life sciences laborers demonstrates once again that the University of Texas at Dallas serves as an economic engine for the region.