UST incubates e-learning, pain management ventures

TWO incubatees from University of Santo Tomas (UST) Technology Business Incubator TOMASINNO Center have successfully fulfilled an incubation program, and are now certified Department of Science and Technology-tic incubation graduates.

First is Cerebro: an education-technology start-up that helps solve teachers’ workload issues with ready-to-use digital lessons and curriculum-aligned test banks. Having been implemented as an e-learning tool in 20+ schools during the pandemic, Cerebro was in the Top 2 of the Department of Trade and Industry’s Venture Pilipinas Startup Pitch Competition-people’s Choice Awards 2021.

Cerebro was started by its CEO Jonald Justine Itugot—a licensed professional teacher with more than 10 years of classroom teaching and school-administration experience in different private institutions before devoting his full attention to e-learning. He is an alumnus of the Ust-college of Education Class of 2011.

The second is Painfree (Pain Management and Consulting Inc.), which helps people with musculoskeletal pain. Its products and services include biomechanical tapes and the fasciocutaneous release techniques. The incubatee mitigates and lessens the pain of those suffering from debilitating musculoskeletal conditions. The company has also put up a “Go Painfree” telerehabilitation platform.

Painfree is founded by its CEO Prof. Valentin Dones III PH.D: the UST Center for Health Research and Movement Science research supervisor, who is also a College of Rehabilitation Sciences academic staff member.

Engr. Edward Paul H. Apigo Sr., who is the Science Research specialist of the Research Information and Technology Transfer Division, delivered the keynote address during the graduation ceremony.

TIC’S assistant manager Professor Michael Francis D. Benjamin, PH.D proudly presented the graduates; while Associate Professor Michael Jorge N. Peralta, MS, MSPT, Ll. M., who is the executive assistant for Intellectual Property and Research; and also UST vice rector for Research and Innovation: Rev. Fr. Jannel N. Abogado OP, awarded the certificates.

TIC is UST’S Technology Business Incubator. Under the supervision of the Office of the Vice Rector for Research and Innovation and in partnership with the DOST, TIC was established in August of 2019 to assist start-ups, while promoting innovation and technopreneurship. Since its creation it has conducted two batches of the Incubation program with the guidance of mentors from the academe and Thomasian alumni.