Texas Health Catalyst Roundup & Rodeo

The Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Dell Med presents the Texas Health Catalyst Roundup & Rodeo, an exclusive showcase event of groundbreaking healthcare innovations from The University of Texas at Austin, where transformative solutions are revolutionizing how people get and stay healthy.

2 - 4pm: Texas Health Catalyst Roundup & Rodeo Event

4 - 6pm: Netowrking reception with food & beverages

Texas Health Catalyst (TxHC), a collaborative program between Dell Medical School, Cockrell School of Engineering, College of Ph*rm*cy, College of Natural Sciences, and Discovery to Impact, accelerates healthcare innovations from across UT Austin.

In fall 2024, TxHC put out a call for Outstanding Proposals in Health as well as three targeted challenges. Our most promising innovator teams will demonstrate solutions addressing critical unmet medical needs, while successful program alumni share their paths to market impact:

Transformative Health Innovation Challenge: Designed to catalyze groundbreaking health care innovations across a broad spectrum of disciplines.

• Laser micro biopsy for cervical cancer diagnosis
• Increasing mRNA therapeutic safety and efficacy with a next-gen RNA polymerase
• Closing Adult and Prenatal Immunization Gaps with VAC-OPT: An Innovative Clinical Decision Support System

Hospital of the Future Challenge: Aligned with the emerging University of Texas Medical Center, this call focuses on the theme of precision health care and targeted therapies.

• A Methodologic Approach to the Machine Learning Estimation of AudiRecordings from a Smartphone – Detection of Fetal Movements
• Improving preclinical research of anti-cancer monoclonal antibodies through antibody engineering
• A Novel Cancer Immunotherapy for Activating Broad Antigen-Specific CD8+ T Cells for Enhanced Anti-Tumor Responses in Pancreatic Cancer
• A Magnetically Steerable Robotic Guidewire for Brain Stroke Treatment

Post-Stroke Care Challenge: Approaching treatments for addressing post-stroke spasticity:

• Post-stroke Spasticity Prediction with AI
• Predicting Post-Stroke Spasticity: A Novel Deep Learning Approach Using Large Scale Claims Data
• Predicting post-stroke spasticity and optimizing treatment strategy based on longitudinal medical history records

TxHC Alumni Company Presentations

• Alumni companies will also present on their successful projects.

Experience how UT Austin's innovators are pioneering breakthroughs in precision medicine, digital health technologies, and next-generation therapeutics and learn about Dell Medical School's vision for establishing Austin as a thriving hub for life sciences innovation.

Watch this quick video from last year's exciting event:

Images from last summer's 2024 TxHC Roundup & Rodeo event:

Host or Publisher Texas Health Catalyst at Dell Medical School