BioBridge Global

To save and enhance lives through the healing power of human cells and tissue. The BioBridge Global family of nonprofits includes the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, QualTex Laboratories, GenCure and The Blood & Tissue Center Foundation. For more than 45 years, we have worked with the healthcare community to provide lifesaving therapies to patie... nts and to support advances in regenerative medicine. South Texas Blood & Tissue Center supplies blood components to more than 100 hospitals in South Texas and supports tissue, bone marrow/stem cell and umbilical cord blood donations. Members of the Bexar County Medical Society, led by Dr. Robert Gossett, decide San Antonio should have a locally based blood bank, one that could respond more quickly to patient needs. The South Texas Regional Blood Bank opens its doors in a small facility in downtown San Antonio. With the donation of a new motor home adapted for blood donations, the blood bank begins welcoming donors at local shopping centers. The South Texas Regional Blood Bank moves into a larger building on San Pedro Avenue and names it in honor of Gossett. Dr. Norman Kalmin joins the blood bank as Medical Director. He will go on to serve the organization for 31 years as Medical Director, Chief Executive Officer, and President/CEO of QualTex Laboratories. The center purchases the historic YWCA building in downtown San Antonio and, following renovations, moves there in 1984. The South Texas Regional Blood bank joins the National Marrow Donor Program registry program and begins collecting umbilical cord blood. The blood bank moves into its current facility on Interstate 10 West and changes its name to the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center to reflect its newly expanded mission into posthumous tissue collection. STBTC becomes the first North American blood and tissue center to achieve ISO 9000 certification. The Blood & Tissue Center Foundation is formed to provide financial support to the blood banks expanding programs. The Texas Cord Blood Bank, authorized and funded ...Read More