Dr. Rene Catan has agreed to be a keynote speaker for this coming Saturday forum on 3d printing. He is the CEO of Arthologic (Mirand?) which obtained a funding from Idea Space and featured as one of the key innovations in the Philippines for medical technology by BBC. His company has come out with a knee joint replacement that is one of the cost in US (down to $5,000). But it is significant that his company is now worth P250 million
Dr. Catan developed a procedure for 2 piece knee replacement technology that would answer the need for some 80,000 Filipinos who suffer arthritic pain from bum knee. He developed the technology in 2011. He obtained funding from IdeaSpace a kickstarter type of funding of Smart. Arthologic was one of the finalist.
He developed all ready a procedure to mass produce the knee replacement. (3d printing?)
What is significant about this, is (and maybe batchmate po nila si Dr Catan) is he is an MBAH graduate and took up Entrep under this writer.
The coming home of Dr. Catan to be a speaker is significant:
1. He achieved what you want for MBAH graduates - to go into research in medical science and technology
2. That he used the platform of entrepreneurship is heartwarming; he will be inspiring many students.(and a multi millionaire to boot)
3. That humble our course may be, we are producing graduates like Dr. Catan, without multi million funding.from the University/school
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