Which city in Texas has the highest concentration of talent in academic biomedical research? There is probably no definitive way to answer this question, but one good "quick and dirty" method would be to compile a list of Texas-based Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigators. Why? Because HHMI Investigators typically constitute a large portion of the 'superstar' biomedical researchers at any given institution. Below is a list compiled from data I obtained from the HHMI website in October 2013: It turns out Dallas leads the list by a long shot, due solely to UT Southwestern Medical Center. Having been a UT Southwestern employee for the past seven years I knew it had a strong research program, but I was still surprised to see it dominate the local competition to the degree that it does in this particular metric (for what it's worth UT Southwestern also has five Nobel laureates among its faculty - four active, one emeritus). This made me curious:
Taking a look inside the Texas biomedical industry — by Isamu Hartman, PhD, MBA