BioUtah announces pitch competition winners at Life Sciences Summit
BioUtah, a trade association representing the life sciences industry in Utah, has announced the winners of its annual pitch competition held in Salt Lake City. The winners were honored at the recent 2025 Wilson Sonsini Entrepreneur & Investor Life Sciences Summit, presented by BioUtah and the University of Utah’s Technology Licensing Office (TLO).
Winners were chosen from each of several categories, including medical devices and diagnostics, therapeutics and pharmaceuticals, and digital health and biotechnology.
The category winners of the pitch competition, sponsored by West Valley radioisotope company Nusano, are Demeter Medical, a mobile concierge aesthetics and IV therapy service, in the Medical Devices and Diagnostics Group 1 category; RefloDX, a gastroesophageal reflux detection product, in the Medical Devices and Diagnostics Group 2; Sethera Therapeutics, a peptide-based drug development company, in the Therapeutics and Pharmaceuticals category; and Monere Corp., an anemia detection app, in the Digital Health and Biotechnology category.
Each of the winning companies received a $4,000 cash prize, along with services from marketing firm Serfwerks and a one-year membership in BioUtah.
On stage at the awards ceremony to present the awards were Kelvyn Cullimore, president and CEO of BioUtah; Bruce Hunter, chief innovation officer at the University of Utah’s TLO; Matt Bresnahan, partner with Wilson Sonsini; and Alden Brown, alliance management lead at Nusano.
“We congratulate this year’s award winners for their cutting-edge innovations and pioneering work to change patients’ lives,” said Cullimore. “The judges faced a difficult decision in choosing the winners.”
The competition featured 12 Utah life sciences companies selected from an initial group of 37 applicants.