The Medical Center of the Americas makes its home in the city of El Paso, nestled between the Rio Grande river to the south and the Franklin Mountains to the north. El Paso, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and Las Cruces, New Mexico are the three major cities in the Paso del Norte region, home to 2.7 million residents, and one of the world’s largest bilingual workforces.

The El Paso-Juarez corridor is one of the nation’s busiest border crossings, supporting a major binational manufacturing, warehousing and transportation industry. The six bridges that comprise the El Paso port of entry into the U.S. contributes $72 billion in total international trade, $18.4 billion in gross state product (GSP) for Texas.

Across the border in the city of Juárez, public and private university systems are producing doctors, nurses, researchers and engineers. The public Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, the city’s largest university, is well known for its medical school, drawing Mexican and American students alike. Another large public university, the Technological Institute of Ciudad Juárez, offers numerous engineering programs, producing graduates ready to contribute to the manufacturing economy on both sides of the border. The prestigious private university, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (popularly known as Tec de Monterrey) has a regional campus in Juárez.

Across the Paso del Norte region, the life sciences industry is growing, thanks to support from a number of emerging research and innovation hubs encouraging entrepreneurship and startup incubation.

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