Johnson and Johnson’s Houston JLABS Facility Opens With 21 Companies
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Johnson & Johnson Innovation opened its latest healthcare start-up hub called JLABS @ TMC within the Texas Medical Center’s Innovation Institute in Houston on March 2.
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