Nucleate Texas Activator 2026 — Applications Now Open

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Are you a scientific trainee interested in launching a biotech or sustainability-focused startup? Are you working on innovations in therapeutics, diagnostics, medtech, synthetic biology, or tackling challenges in food, energy, agriculture, or consumer products?

Apply now to join Nucleate’s Activator program, the largest scientist-led biotech accelerator supporting ventures at the intersection of human and planetary health.

🔗 Apply here: apply.nucleate.org
📅 Deadline: Rolling admission through October 20, 2025
📍 Programs in Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio (plus 18+ global chapters)

Nucleate is a student-run nonprofit organization that facilitates the formation of new life science ventures [see our stories in STAT and  Endpoints]. Our equity-free Activator program supports companies that tackle the biggest challenges in human health (Bio Track) and sustainability (Eco Track). The program connects scientific trainees and business students with a world-class advisor network of startup founders, executives, venture investors, and renowned scientists. Nucleate Texas operates in Dallas, Houston, Austin, and our newest chapter San Antonio.

Over four years, Nucleate has supported over 409 venture teams through our Activator program. Our alumni have gone on to raise over $550M in funding to develop technologies like protein sequencing (Glyphic), drug design (Manifold Bio), microbiome (Concerto) and and biomanufacturing (FarmForward).
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Apply here before October 20th, 2025. Visit our website to learn more, and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at dallas@nucleate.org 
 

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Co-hosted with: Alpha Epsilon Delta/Pre-Health Professions Society , Biomedical Engineering Society, Hart Center for Engineering Leadership, Minority Association of Pre-Health Students, National Society of Black Engineers, Office of Engaged Learning, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Society of Women Engineers, Women in Science & Engineering, Texas Society of Professional Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Student Branch, Hart Institute for Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Big iDeas

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