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UTSA grads win top prize at Beta Summit
- Mike Thomas
Three recent engineering graduates from the University of Texas at San Antonio wowed a standing-room only crowd at the Beta Summit on March 3 with their new medical technology that promises to prevent cranial defects in premature infants.
Invictus Engineering, the startup company founded by the three UTSA grads, was awarded the top prize for the 2011 Beta Summit at Innotech San Antonio, one of the largest annual technology conferences in the Alamo City. The Beta Summit gives promising startup companies the opportunity to present their ideas before a panel of judges comprised of technology experts and venture capitalists.
Daniel Mendez, chief technology officer for Invictus, says winning the contest will give them a boost in getting exposure for their new medical technology. The company has developed a prototype of a cotton-lined helmet filled with a type of gel that would be warn by premature infants to prevent platiocephally, a shifting of the cranial plates which has to be surgically corrected in most cases. Mendez says as many as 20 percent of premature babies are subject to platiocephally and he says their new device would eliminate the problem entirely.
Mendez says the company is in the process of finding a medical manufacturer to work with and says they hope to have a medical quality prototype finished in the next two to three months.
The Innotech conference will continue through March 4 at the Norris Conference Center in the Wonderland of the Americas Mall at 4522 Fredericksburg Road.
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