Texas Life-sciences Collaboration Center Adds Fourth Firm



Date of Publication: 4/08/2008

Deaton Engineering Brings Product Development Expertise


Georgetown’s biotech center adds new growth again this week with the addition of a fourth company. An engineering firm with Georgetown roots is the third to join the center in the past nine months. Deaton Engineering is a full-service product engineering firm with expertise in medical devices, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and other industries.

Deaton joins three other companies at the Texas Life-sciences Collaboration Center—Radix BioSolutions, Orthopeutics, L.P., and Quantum Logic Devices. James Deaton, president of Deaton Engineering, will step into a leadership role at center as co-chair of the TLCC Advisory Council. Deaton Engineering offers a wide variety of engineering solutions and consulting services to clients, and can be found on the web at http://www.deatonengineering.com/.

"This collaboration further demonstrates the emerging biotech cluster that is rapidly developing in Georgetown," says Russ Peterman, executive director of TLCC. "The TLCC is now poised for a number of organizational and collaboration expansions going forward. I believe that you will begin to see the reality of our vision for this unique life-sciences center over the coming months."

Biotechnology and Life-sciences Companies

The TLCC at 111 Cooperative Way in Georgetown is a nonprofit organization with a mission to attract post-incubation biotechnology and life-sciences companies to Georgetown, Texas, and to the greater Austin region. The TLCC was founded by grants and support from the City of Georgetown, Southwestern University, the Georgetown Independent School District, and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce. The center provides wet labs, a nanotechnology Class-100 clean room, basic infrastructure, and plans for genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics product laboratories to schools, universities and member organizations that locate in the center.

For details, contact Mark Thomas, economic development director for the City of Georgetown at (512) 930-3646.