San Antonio Economic Development Foundation (SAEDF)
San Antonio is America’s 7th largest city, and healthcare/bioscience is its leading industry, employing nearly 1 of every 6 in the local workforce, with an annual economic impact exceeding $30 billion. San Antonio’s biomedical community is known as highly collaborative with unique research assets in trauma, wound healing, and regenerative medicine; diabetes and obesity; infectious diseases; neurological disorders; and cancer. The city’s private sector industry leaders and startups have a successful track record of bringing life-saving innovations to market, including pharmaceuticals and medical devices. San Antonio is also recognized as the “Home of US Military Medicine” with the nation’s largest military medical treatment center and allied health training complex, plus the US Army Institute of Surgical Research and Burn Unit. BioMed SA is an industry cluster organization to further grow and promote the biomedical industry. San Antonio's growth-oriented business environment, also known as "The Culture of Business," provides the ideal market to start or grow a biomedical enterprise.