Texas Healthcare & Bioscience Institute

​FALL POLICY SUMMIT & LUMINARY AWARDS DINNER
October 1, 2025


Texas Biotech: Driving Innovation, Putting Patients First
Texas is the future of bioscience innovation, improving patient outcomes, pioneering research, developing innovative therapies, and creating a healthier Texas for tomorrow. 

AT&T Hotel and Conference Center
Grand Ballroom

1900 University Avenue

Austin, Texas


12:00-1:00pm Registration and Networking
1:00–4:30pm Fall Policy Summit

4:30–6:00pm Reception

6:00-7:30pm Luminary Awards Dinner

THBI'S annual Fall Policy Summit is a half-day conference with conversations focused on the latest ground breaking research, federal policy initiatives, and what Texas biotech is doing to put patients at the forefront of innovation. The event will also recognize industry leaders who have furthered innovation in Texas with the presentation of the annual Luminary Awards at a dinner following the Summit. 

The event brings together members of the Texas Legislature and their staff, the Texas Congressional delegation members and their staff, state agency staff, patient groups, THBI members and life science industry professionals. 

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2025 Fall Policy Summit and Luminary Awards Dinner Agenda 

Panel 1- Texas Universities Pioneering Research for Patients

Learn how Texas Universities are leading the way to a healthier future for patients in Texas by  supporting researchers and driving commercialization of next generation medical breakthroughs.


Proposition 14 Spotlight

Alzheimer’s Association will share how you can support Proposition 14 to authorize the creation of the Dementia Prevention Research Institute of Texas. 


Panel 2- Federal Policy Changes Impacting Texas Biotech

Learn more about the unprecedented changes occurring at the federal level and how those could impact your business and the broader implications for patients and Texas's biotech industry. 


Panel 3- Biotech Innovations Improving Outcomes for Patients Biotech Innovations Improving Outcomes for Patients

Learn more about how life science and biotech companies are driving a new era of patient care and the critical obstacles that prevent these innovations from effectively reaching and benefiting patients.


Luminary Awards Dinner Keynote Speaker:

Casey McPherson
AlphaRose Therapeutics and To Cure a Rose Foundation

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Luminary Awards:

Texas State Senator Molly Cook
Texas State Representative Todd Hunter
Larry Schlesinger, MD, Texas Biomedical Research Institute
In Memoriam: Ann Tanabe, BioHouston

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The mission of the Texas Healthcare and Bioscience Institute is to develop and advocate policies and actions that promote biomedical science, biotechnology, agriculture and medical device innovation in Texas.

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