St. George Innovators win R&D grant for medical device

$150,000 Phase I SBIR grant from the National Institute of Health will help with work on a device that tests and refines data for a critical surgical monitor.


Witting Innovations, a St. George,Utah-based mechanical and bio-engineering design firm, has recently been awarded a $150,000 Phase I SBIR grant from the National Institute of Health to work on a device that tests and refines data for a critical surgical monitor.

Brent Weight, mechanical engineer and MBA, will be the business lead on the project. His partner Daryl Zitting, a bioengineer, will be the principal investigator, and Doctor Joe Orr, a research associate professor in bioengineering at the University of Utah, will lend his technical and marketing advice and experience to the project. 

Read more about the R&D Grant in the article by Elenor Heyborne.