Little of what researchers at the Texas Medical Center's premier institutions have discovered to fight cancer or regenerate human cells has left the lab and become products that save people's lives. And innovations that have started in Houston often wound up on the east or west coasts, where savvy investors and entrepreneurs knew how to package and market them.
Image: Dr. Robert Robbins, the Texas Medical Center President and CEO, stands in the new TMC incubator on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014, in Houston. The business incubator is being developed to bring in more health care-related startups to the Houston area. ( Mayra Beltran / Houston Chronicle )
