Start-Up Company of the Year: Virtual Incision

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Virtual Incision receives the 2016 NUtech Ventures Start-Up Company of the Year award.

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[00:00:02.909]In a hospital in Paraguay,
[00:00:04.762]a patient undergoes surgery
[00:00:06.285]to remove part of the intestine.
[00:00:08.397]Colon resection is used to treat a variety of diseases,
[00:00:11.556]including cancer,
[00:00:13.114]but the operation has never been done like this.
[00:00:16.566]I think this is the first time ever
[00:00:18.573]that a robot has functioned inside of a living human being.
[00:00:21.740]The miniature robotic surgical device
[00:00:23.800]is the product of Virtual Incision,
[00:00:26.128]a company founded by University of Nebraska-Lincoln
[00:00:28.880]engineer Shane Farritor
[00:00:30.751]and Dmitry Oleynikov
[00:00:32.061]of the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
[00:00:34.455]We had a really big milestone this year
[00:00:37.038]in that we did our first procedures on humans.
[00:00:39.766]I think it's a big milestone in robotics,
[00:00:41.471]and I think it's a big milestone in medicine.
[00:00:43.592]More than two million patients around the world
[00:00:45.743]undergo colon resection surgery each year.
[00:00:49.108]About 2/3 of those procedures involve
[00:00:51.212]a large, open incision
[00:00:52.992]and up to six weeks of recovery time.
[00:00:55.807]But Virtual Incision wants to do this
[00:00:57.462]through a small incision in the belly button,
[00:00:59.945]insert our robot,
[00:01:01.318]and that will result in a much shorter hospital stay.
[00:01:04.733]Our patients were walking the day after surgery,
[00:01:08.282]eating the day after that,
[00:01:09.277]and released from the hospital on that third day,
[00:01:10.954]so we're very pleased with the outcomes.
[00:01:13.029]Virtual Incision is the result
[00:01:14.730]of years of research and collaboration.
[00:01:17.776]As a UNL undergrad and graduate student,
[00:01:20.481]Nathan Wood worked with Dr. Farritor
[00:01:22.607]on prototypes of the robotic device.
[00:01:25.085]After earning his PhD in Surgical Robotics,
[00:01:27.833]he's back home.
[00:01:29.409]It's great to have this company in Nebraska.
[00:01:31.065]We're doing big things
[00:01:32.560]and really pushing the envelope here.
[00:01:34.621]The ability to commercialize technology
[00:01:36.813]helps make a difference in the lives of patients.
[00:01:40.309]I'm an engineer.
[00:01:41.142]I wanna build things that help people.
[00:01:43.810]You're asked a lot of hard questions
[00:01:45.403]when you go seek investment for a company
[00:01:47.409]and when you're being asked by the FDA
[00:01:50.063]if your product's safe,
[00:01:52.087]so it forces you to think about things differently,
[00:01:54.157]and I think it really improves the research we do
[00:01:55.988]back inside the university.
[00:01:57.964]The next step is FDA approval.
[00:02:00.352]Eventually, the technology could be expanded
[00:02:02.661]to other medical procedures,
[00:02:04.316]like gall bladder removal or hysterectomy,
[00:02:07.022]and some day, surgery could be done remotely
[00:02:10.058]on the battlefield or in space.
[00:02:12.645]I think we're in a position
[00:02:14.181]to make a big change in patients' lives.
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