“Today’s occasion underscores the tremendous power of collaboration among three iconic North Texas institutions — UT Southwestern, UT Dallas and Texas Instruments. The already robust partnership between UT Dallas and UT Southwestern will take another huge step forward upon the launch of our shared facilities. In addition, support from TI, the UT System and the O’Donnell Foundation made it possible for UTD to establish the Texas Biomedical Device Center in 2012. UT Southwestern’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, launched in 2021, is 50th (tie) in the nation among engineering school specialty rankings for biomedical engineering/bioengineering programs and listed fourth among Texas biomedical engineering programs by U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School report. The medical center offers a PhD in biomedical engineering as part of its Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and an MD/PhD in medicine and biomedical engineering through its medical school and graduate school.