Texas Biomedical Research Institute

found: Kerr, J.C. The Argyle of San Antonio, [2019]:ECIP Chapter 6 (The central purpose of the club [Argyle, a private club in San Antonio, Texas] -- to provide a perpetual, living endowment for basic scientific research ... Each resident member today is required to make an annual contribution to the Texas Biomedical Research Institute to support the institute's research budget. Today the Texas Biomedical Research Institute is one of the nation's leading independent private medical research institutes, with internationally recognized programs in virology, immunology, and genetics. The primary focus of research at Texas Biomedical today is the threat to global human health from common infectious diseases ranging from HIV-AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and SARS to hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola and bioterrorism threats such as anthrax and the Marburg virus)

found: Its website, Oct. 4, 2018(Texas Biomedical Research Institute aims to unravel the mysteries of chronic and infectious diseases through innovative thinking, creative problem solving and cutting edge technologies. Texas Biomed, originally known as the Foundation of Applied Research, was created as a non-profit institution in 1941)

found: The Argyle (private club) website, Oct. 4, 2018:Texas Biomed (On December 16, 1941, Tom Slick, Jr. established the Foundation of Applied Research (FAR) by a trust indenture. Endowed with 1,875 shares of the Slick-Urschel Oil Company, FAR's mission was to provide fundamental research and advanced education, covering agricultural research, the natural sciences and medicine. FAR's name was changed in 1952 to the Southwest Foundation for Research and Education, succeeded by the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in 1984. In 2011, the name was changed to Texas Biomedical Research Institute)

found: In search of Tom Slick, 2020:Page 56, ECIP galley (At the close of 1941, just one week after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor Slick founded the first of five scientific research institutes that he would establish during his lifetime. The Foundation of Applied Research (FAR) would change its name three times in the decades ahead -- to Southwest Foundation for Research and Education (SFRE) in 1952, to Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBM) in 1984, and finally to Texas Biomedical Research Institute in 2011)

found: Handbook of Texas, viewed May 6, 2020(Southwest Research Institute and Texas Biomedical Research Institute are together known as the Southwest Research Center) - https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/sqs02