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Tom Slick: Pioneer of the Possible — TXBioBytes Podcast Episode 012

Tom Slick, Jr., is the founder of Texas Biomed

The founder of Texas Biomedical Research Institute, Tom Slick, was a man of great vision and curiosity. His niece, Catherine Nixon Cooke, wrote a fascinating book about him title Tom Slick Mystery Hunter.

We talked with Cooke about her uncle who lived some larger-than-life adventures and planted to seeds of scientific research in San Antonio that has yielded many breakthroughs in diagnostics, therapies and vaccines.

Cooke says Tom Slick would have been delighted at what his vision in the early 40s has become in 2018.