Eagle Passan Luis Davila wins Student Technology Venture Competition

Photo courtesy of the San Antonio Business Journal

By: Ricardo E. Calderon

Eagle Passan Luis Davila, a senior BioMedical Engineering student at the University of Texas at San Antonio, won the Student Technology Venture Competition at UTSA together with his team comprised of Richard Canty, Adam Daufen, Justin Earnest, Shelbi Chrislip, Duncan Hughes, and Warren Norket earlier this month.

Davila’s team launched a company called Lapara Medical, Inc. to develop, design, build, manufacture, and market a Laparascopic cooling medical device to be used during kidney surgeries. The medical device invented and patented by Davila and his partners is designed to cool a kidney during an operation removing tumors to prevent kidney damage and reduce the risks of post-operation problems.

Davila and his team members will share a prize of $100,000. The Student Technology Venture Competition at UTSA was established in 2007 to allow undergraduate engineering and business students to invent a new technology, patent it, create a new business, and launch it as part of a university incubator program at UTSA.

Davila and his winning team members will receive $100,000 plus consulting, marketing, legal services, office space, and other services.