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This project was born out of a cross-border collaboration between Tecnol\u00f3gico de Monterrey and the University of Texas at Austin<\/a>. The center’s facilities will be based in Austin, but responsibility will be shared between the universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The two co-directors, Alexandro Martag\u00f3n<\/a><\/strong>, General Coordinator of the Metabolic Disease Research Unit at Tec de Monterrey, and Gabriela Livas Stein<\/strong> from UT Austin<\/a>, aim for the center to fill an important gap in the scientific world. \u201cThis is a population that constitutes a large part of the world, but has been little studied in the scientific literature,\u201d said Livas during her speech. \u201cThis will be an opportunity to open these doors and impact not just the study of Mexicans, but of the entire world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n During his inaugural speech, David Vanden Bout<\/a><\/strong>, Interim Executive Vice President and Provost of UT Austin, highlighted that this collaboration is the result of a full year of work building bridges between the two institutions. He emphasized the transformational nature of the project and its potential to become a model for binational collaboration beyond Texas and Nuevo Le\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the same vein, representatives from Tecnol\u00f3gico de Monterrey emphasized how establishing meaningful relationships across the border will provide better solutions to health problems that impact not only Latinos, but people across the globe. In her speech, Livas shared the story of her father, who had left Monterrey to study at UT Austin in the 1960s as part of the Good Neighbor policy. This family experience emphasized the symbolism of the center as a continuation of a long history of cooperation between the two regions. In an interview, Livas explained that traditional medical research has been primarily based on studies with European populations, offering a limited point of view that does not represent global diversity. The OHRC seeks to broaden this perspective, generating knowledge that benefits populations around the world. During the ceremony, a video was shown presenting the Origen project, described as the largest biobank of genetic, clinical, and epidemiological information in Latin America. This pioneering initiative from Tec de Monterrey will be fundamental to the work of the OHRC, which will use this data along with Artificial Intelligence<\/a> (AI) to develop predictive models that allow more precise personalization of treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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