Hubert Zajicek

Dr. Hubert Zajicek is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Health Wildcatters. Prior to forming Health Wildcatters he was managing director of medical technology at NTEC. At NTEC he was responsible for the medical technology program where he reviewed, evaluated and advised hundreds of startup companies. He oversaw the construction of NTEC's state-of-the-art 50,000 SF building and managed the facility including its roughly 10,000 SF lab space. During his tenure he created MedVentures, the Southwest's largest medical technology investment conference, whose presenting companies raised a combined $274M in funding. Dr. Zajicek has over ten years of experience in the life sciences. Before joining NTEC, he was on faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center where he was an NIH-funded Principal Investigator. His areas of research included Nephrology and Cell Biology with a focus on membrane transport and membrane composition. His interests extend into biophysics, fluorescence and imaging techniques. He authored and co-authored over 15 scientific articles, more than 30 presentations at national and international meetings and 2 book-chapters.