MCA Foundation

The MCA’s mission is to catalyze the life sciences ecosystem in the Paso del Norte region. Its vision is to cultivate a dynamic regional biomedical industry and innovation / entrepreneurship ecosystem that competes globally. The MCA also aims to create a world class medical center within the Medical Center of the Americas campus that will foster and accelerate biomedical and healthcare innovation, creating new employment opportunities and meeting health care needs of the region’s current and future citizens. This biomedicine-driven economic growth mission will be accomplished through a series of strategic activities involving both physical infrastructure and programmatic initiatives focused on discovery, development and deployment building blocks to harness and grow regional assets consisting of biomedical and healthcare research, demographics providing for distinctive clinical trials capability, adaptive workforce and logistics and manufacturing capabilities that can accommodate biomedical business environments.