Houston Health Department

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Last activity: 15.10.2026

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United States, Texas, Houston

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+1 832-393-5169

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Oct 14, 2026	5 minority-founded startups shaping the future of Houston innovation	Houston’s startup ecosystem reflects the diversity of the city itself. As part of the 2026 Houston Innovation Awards, our Minority-founded Businesses category will honor an innovative Houston startup founded or co-founded by BIPOC or LGBTQ+...
Oct 13, 2026	Houston's Innovation Engine Accelerates: Tech, Health, and Industry Lead Texas Growth	Houston surges as a premier innovation hub. University of Houston researchers fight superbugs with AI and quantum sensing. They expand opioid overdose training, addressing a critical health crisis. Generous philanthropic gifts bolster engin...
Oct 12, 2026	Texas public libraries drive billions in economic impact, report finds	A new statewide study examining the economic impacts of public libraries has revealed they have generated over $3.8 billion in value to local communities — a return of $4.74 for every $1 invested. The report, "Beyond the Stacks: Measur...
Oct 12, 2026	UH lands $3M grant to expand opioid overdose training	The University of Houston has received a $3 million federal grant to expand its potentially life-saving overdose response training program. The grant will support the Houston Health Department’s FRONTLINES program that trains first responde...
Oct 9, 2026	New statewide plan aims to eliminate cervical cancer in Texas by 2032	MD Anderson, on behalf of a coalition of health systems, has announced a new plan to eliminate cervical cancer in Texas. The five-year Texas Lone Star Cervical Cancer Elimination Plan was launched during the Cancer Prevention and Research I...
Oct 8, 2026	Announcing the 2026 Houston Innovation Awards finalists	InnovationMap is proud to reveal the finalists for the 2026 Houston Innovation Awards. The sixth annual Houston Innovation Awards program returns in an all-digital format this fall to honor the best of Houston's innovation ecosystem, includ...
Oct 8, 2026	Q&A: TIME100 AI honoree Angle Bush on building Houston’s artificial intelligence future	Angle Bush, founder and CEO of Black Women in Artificial Intelligence, has a running question for her organization's members: Are you in the lab? For Bush, inquiry isn’t philosophical. Learning about artificial intelligence is one thing. Bu...
Sep 23, 2024	Houston allergy data reveals large spike in pollen count over last decade	New data from the Houston area reveals spiking levels of ragweed, elm and cedar elm pollen as well as mold spore counts as we enter the fall season. An allergy expert at Baylor College of Medicine breaks down this information and other tren...
Jul 3, 2024	Houston health tech startup scores $30,000 prize at annual pitch competition	A Houston biotech company has won the Texas A&M New Ventures Competition (TNVC). Taurus Vascular took home $30,000 for its first-place victory. Taurus Vascular is working on a new solution to stopping abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) be...
Jul 3, 2024	Houston health tech startup secures $20M series A, NIH grant amid clinical trials	A clinical-stage Houston health tech company with a novel therapeutic device has raised venture capital funding and secured a grant from the National Institutes of Health. VenoStent Inc., which is currently in clinical trials with its bioab...
May 6, 2024	Houston health tech startup scores $2.5M SBIR grant to advance unique cell therapy AI technology	A Houston biotech company just announced a new award of $2.5 million. CellChorus, a spinoff of the Single Cell Lab at the University of Houston, announced the fresh funding, which comes from an SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) gran...
Mar 7, 2023	Houston health tech company closes $3M series A	It's been just under six months since the launch of Prana Thoracic, a Houston health tech startup tackling lung cancer diagnostics, and the company has already secured its next round of investment funding. Prana Thoracic, a medical device c...
Jan 24, 2022	Atlanta growth equity firm acquires Houston health care startup	A Houston-based startup specializing in minimally invasive vascular procedures has made an exit. Fulcrum Equity Partners, based in Atlanta, has announced the acquisition of Texas Endovascular Associates, a specialty physician practice acros...
Jan 20, 2022	Energy transition innovator shares how Houston could be a biomanufacturing hub	Moji Karimi and his sister Tara had the idea for a company that could transform carbon emissions and mitigate new damage to the environment. Only, it seems, they were a bit ahead of their time. Houston-based Cemvita Factory, founded in 2017...
Jan 20, 2022	University of Houston: How to spin out university research into a startup as faculty	Most inventors, whether they are university faculty or not, want to eventually start a company and capitalize on their inventions and research. For university faculty, this could be, or at least seems like a much more difficult thing to do....
Jan 20, 2022	Shell forms $5M carbon capture research partnership with Houston-area university	Houston-based Shell Global Solutions and Prairie View A&M University signed a $5 million partnership this week that aims to foster innovative and effective carbon dioxide utilization and carbon capture methods. The five-year research ag...
Jan 13, 2022	Houston expert shares 3 venture capital predictions for 2022	New Year’s resolutions are all well and good, but this year, in true VC fashion, I’m making some New Year’s predictions, too. Though I’m not an oracle, I am an investor, which means I use what I learned in the past to guide my decisions in ...
Jan 11, 2022	Opinion: Houston energy expert weighs in on if the state's power grid is ready for winter	The Winter Storm Uri, which struck Texas in February of 2021, was an unprecedented event in both severity and duration. At its most extreme, temperatures were as much as 40 to 50 degrees below their historic averages. The storm resulted in ...
Jan 6, 2022	City of Houston announces 2 new COVID mega-testing sites	With the omicron variant showing no signs of slowing locally or nationally, the City of Houston’s health department has partnered with a major company to open two mega COVID-19 testing sites this week, both opening on Thursday, January 6. T...

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Parsers VC has collected 20 articles mentioning Houston Health Department, among them “5 minority-founded startups shaping the future of Houston innovation” (Oct 14, 2026) and “Houston's Innovation Engine Accelerates: Tech, Health, and Industry Lead Texas Growth” (Oct 13, 2026).

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