Two startup ventures from TOMASInno Center, the official business incubator of the University of Santo Tomas, are now certified DOST-TIC Incubation graduates.
Cerebro was founded by licensed professional teacher Jonald Justine Itugot who gained over 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.
Second is PainFree, a manual physiotherapy treatment that helps people with musculoskeletal pain. Its products and services include biomechanical tape and fasciocutaneous release techniques. The company has also put up a “Go PainFree” telerehabilitation platform. It is founded by Valentin Dones III, Ph.D., UST Center for Health Research and Movement Science research specialist of the and College of Rehabilitation Sciences academic staff professor.
Under the supervision of the Office of the Vice Rector for Research and Innovation and in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), TOMASInno Center was established in August 2019 to assist start-ups, and to promote innovation and technopreneurship. Since its establishment, it has conducted two batches of the Incubation Program with the guidance of the TIC mentors from the academe and Thomasian alumni.
During the graduation ceremony, the keynote address was delivered by Engr. Edward Paul Apigo, Sr., Science Research Specialist, Research Information and Technology Transfer Division. TOMASInno Center assistant manager Prof. Michael Francis D. Benjamin, Ph.D. presented the graduates while Assoc. Prof. Michael Jorge N. Peralta, MS, MSPT, Ll. M., Executive Assistant for Intellectual Property and Research and the UST Vice Rector for Research and Innovation, Rev. Fr. Jannel N. Abogado, O.P., awarded certificates.