Featured in Smithsonian Magazine: These Young Innovators Have Created a 'Fitbit' to Predict Epileptic Seizures
We're honored to be featured in Smithsonian Magazine in a profile by writer Ramsha Waseem that traces Theta Neurotech from origin to where we are today. The piece covers how the company started with our co-founders' personal connections to epilepsy — CEO Truman Pierson's young cousin Noa, and a Vanderbilt mentor of co-founder Christopher Fitz — and walks through our behind-the-ear EEG patch design, the 20-plus hardware iterations behind it, and our retrospective results predicting 110 of 123 seizures across an initial 27-patient cohort with an average warning time of 36 minutes.
The article also includes perspective from Dr. Sandip Pati, director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at the University of Minnesota, on both the clinical promise of continuous, real-world seizure monitoring and the validation work still ahead. We're grateful for the thoughtful coverage as we prepare to launch our Phase I pilot study at UChicago Medicine and continue working through a waitlist of more than 2,000 patients and caregivers.