” It is a solution that will allow more patients to benefit from a treatment with very high added value, used for several years, but which requires a know-how that very few practitioners have mastered ”, indicates Montpellier’s Bertin Nahum, who co-founded Quantum Surgical, in 2017, and employs today 56 employees.
A world premiere last June in Montpellier
On June 4, a clinical trial allowed Professor Boris Guiu, at the Montpellier University Hospital, to operate successfully, for the first time, on a patient of 20 years thanks to this amazing medical robot. The surgeon was able to plan the operation in advance, using 3D images of the patient, then perform his gesture with precision, guided by the machine. This operation had made it possible to “destroy the tumor entirely”. “We couldn’t have done better. The patient is doing very well. He returned home the next day to resume a normal life “, had confided the professor, after the intervention.
The Quantum Surgical robot – Quantum Surgical
Very minimally invasive, the technique increases the comfort of the patient and the surgeon, shortens hospitalization time, and limits pain, as well as the risk of infection and medical error. Quantum Surgical’s robot, which is expected to sell for around a million euros, should soon have achieved all regulatory certifications, and clinical trials are about to be completed.
But Bertin Nahum, the co-founder of the start-up Montpellier, n is not at his first attempt: it is he who, from 648, had created in Hérault Medtech, a pioneer company in medical robotics. The flourishing company had developed a robot dedicated to knee surgery, and another to neurosurgery. This real nugget, which he has since sold to an American company, earned Bertin Nahum the title of 2002 by the magazine Discovery Series
among the world’s greatest entrepreneurs, behind Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and James Cameron.