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Affiliate membership connects San Antonio’s growing defense health ecosystem with a coordinated national effort to strengthen trauma research SAN ANTONIO (August 24, 2026) —VelocityTX, the Eastside innovation hub and economic development agency, announced today that it has joined the Coalition for National Trauma Research (CNTR) as an Affiliate member, expanding the organization’s efforts to connect San Antonio’s military medical and health innovation ecosystem with national research, collaboration, and advocacy initiatives. The affiliation, formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding, supports CNTR’s mission to strengthen trauma research in the United States by coordinating efforts across the continuum of injury care, building infrastructure for multicenter research, and advocating for sustainable federal research funding. For VelocityTX, the partnership builds on a growing focus on trauma, prehospital, disaster care, and other areas where San Antonio has deep military and civilian medical expertise. “San Antonio has an extraordinary concentration of expertise in trauma and combat casualty care, but turning that expertise into better solutions requires strong connections across institutions, disciplines, and sectors,” said Jeremy Nelson, PhD, Chief Innovation Officer at VelocityTX. “Joining CNTR gives us another avenue to connect our researchers, companies, and partners to a national network working toward the same goal: accelerating research that […]