Brugada Unveils 4 Billion Peso Preventive Medicine Center in Tlalpan

Mexico City Head of Government Clara Brugada announced an investment of more than 4 billion pesos to build what officials call the country’s first Interdisciplinary Center for Preventive Medicine (Centro Interdisciplinario de Medicina Preventiva) in the southern borough of Tlalpan. The project is expected to create more than 2 thousand direct and indirect jobs, mostly for scientists, researchers, health professionals and biotechnology specialists.

The center will be built through a partnership between the Tecnológico de Monterrey, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the domestic pharmaceutical industry and the company Avant Santé, with backing from the federal and city governments, according to El Universal, Crónica and La Querella Digital. Brugada presented it as part of a strategic plan called Distrito Tlalpan, an innovation district centered on the Tec de Monterrey campus in the south of the city.

What the Tlalpan complex will do

Brugada said the core of the project is a clinical research center meant to turn scientific discoveries into new medicines and treatments, carrying them as far as the clinical trial stage. She described it as the first facility in Mexico to combine research with the technological development and manufacturing of health products and supplies.

The complex will also have facilities for predictive medicine and precision oncology. Crónica and La Querella Digital report that this work will focus on early detection of cancer and on the study of neurodegenerative and cardiometabolic diseases (conditions of the heart, blood vessels and metabolism, such as diabetes).

Within the project, the Tec de Monterrey will invest more than 350 million pesos in its own Interdisciplinary Center for Preventive and Precision Medicine, aimed at early diagnosis and affordable medical solutions, El Universal reported. David Garza Salazar, executive president of the Tec de Monterrey Educational Group, said that center will open in 2027 with 50 researchers from UNAM and the Tec. Its labs will work in three areas: precision oncology for prostate and lung cancer, healthy aging, and biopharma.

Private money behind the project

Sitaramaraju Yarramraju, founder and director general of Avant Santé Research Center, said the company plans an initial investment of $15 million, rising to as much as $125 million over the next five years. He said three other companies interested in projects in Mexico have committed another $100 million. Avant Santé expects to start operations in the second quarter of 2027, according to Crónica.

The company will build infrastructure for generating scientific evidence on treatments developed by biotech and biopharmaceutical firms. Federal Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Avant Santé’s money would also support startups in clinical stages.

Why it matters for Mexico City

Brugada framed the center as part of a push to shift the capital from an economy built on services toward one that also produces knowledge and develops its own technology. Ebrard argued that the Tlalpan area can become a national reference for health and biotechnology because roughly 25 thousand medical specialists work there, alongside universities, research centers and private investors.

For residents of Tlalpan and the south of the city, the plan adds a new employer and a research cluster outside the business districts where investment has usually gone. Brugada said the strategy is meant to open new productive hubs beyond those traditional zones.

The city’s wider investment figures

At the same event, Brugada said public investment in Mexico City reached 58 billion pesos this year, 55 percent more than in 2024. She added that the city’s Investment Agency (Agencia de Inversiones) has supported projects worth about 300 billion pesos.

She called on business owners, universities, industry chambers, civil society groups and officials at every level of government to sign a pact for investment, innovation and green reindustrialization of the capital.

What comes next

The Tec de Monterrey center is scheduled to open in 2027, and Avant Santé targets the second quarter of that year to begin operations. Officials have not said when construction on the wider complex will start or which part of Tlalpan will host each building.

Sources: El Universal, laquerelladigital.com, Crónica