Alcon

North Texas IT Excellence: DallasCISO and DallasCIO ORBIE Awards to Honor Top Tech Leaders in Consecutive Events

by | Feb 2, 2024

The ORBIE Awards are set to recognize North Texas’ top information technology talent with back-to-back award events on Feb. 8 and 9. The DallasCISO and DallasCIO ORBIE Awards events will spotlight chief information security officers (CISOs) and chief information officers (CIOs) driving innovation and shaping the digital landscape at major North Texas organizations....

MORE
Report: Alcon Laboratories Explores a $100M Fort Worth Campus Expansion
by | Oct 23, 2023
The report by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram cites records filed with the city, with Alcon's potential new 250,000-SF manufacturing facility slated for a 135-acre site east of Alcon's campus, along East Altamesa Boulevard.
MORE
Texas A&M System Approves New Tarleton State Biotech Institute in Downtown Fort Worth
by | Sep 1, 2023

Tarleton State University received the go-ahead for a new biotechnology institute as part of Texas A&M-Fort Worth’s burgeoning downtown research campus.

Approved in mid-August by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents, the biotech institute is situated in one of the nation’s fastest-growing life sciences hubs....

MORE
Groundbreaking: Fortune 500 Company Joins Texas A&M Fort Worth’s Landmark Campus Project
Dignitaries dug in today at the groundbreaking for Texas A&M Fort Worth. Construction will begin with the $150 million Law & Education Building, part of a three-building urban research campus. Texas A&M System Chancellor John Sharp says the campus will be "a magnet for economic growth for the North Texas region.”
MORE
Alcon

The (Alcon) Family Tree: How One Company Seeded a DFW Life Science Legacy

by | Jan 21, 2020
Alcon gave rise to a startup ecosystem in North Texas that is spreading into all parts of how drugs, medical devices, and more are created.
MORE
funding
Follow the Money: AmplifAI Gets $3.9M, Offerpad Closes Series C Funding Round, JLL Buys HFF
by | Mar 21, 2019
You’ll also find news about Mark Cuban, Fastsigns International, Blucora, 1st Global Inc., Alcon, and Signify Health in this roundup of funding and acquisition activity involving investors and companies with ties to North Texas.
MORE
earwax
Earwax Treatment Hits Amazon, Soon in Pharmacy Chain
by | May 10, 2017
EarwaxMD recently made its debut on Amazon, and will hit the shelves of a pharmacy chain in August.
MORE
Vision
Swiss Pharma Powerhouse Buys Encore Vision
by | Dec 21, 2016
The company as developed a treatment for presbyopia, which can make it difficult for people to focus their eyes.
MORE
Orbis flying eye

Orbis Flying Hospital Takes Eye Care to the World

by | Jul 11, 2016
The MD-10 is the world’s first certified hospital aircraft developed by Orbis, a nonprofit that fights blindness around the world.
MORE