SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioMed SA, the non-profit corporation focused on growing and promoting San Antonio’s thriving healthcare and bioscience sector, will award its sixth annual Julio Palmaz Award for Innovation in Healthcare and the Biosciences to Leroy Hood, MD, Ph.D, President and Co-founder, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington. The award, named after Palmaz® Stent inventor Julio Palmaz, M.D., honors individuals who have made significant contributions to advance the healthcare and bioscience fields. Dr. Hood will accept the award at BioMed SA’s annual Palmaz Award dinner to be held in San Antonio on September 20, 2011.
