UPSURGEON

UpSurgeOn S.r.l. is an innovative Italian start-up, based in Assago (Milan), specialized in the development of virtual reality and physical simulation technologies for psychomotor enhancement, for surgical and neurosurgical training in particular. UpSurgeOn counts on the collaboration of a team of over twenty-five people, all with a solid technical-scientific background. Thanks to a Horizon 2020 grant obtained by the European Community in 2019, UpSurgeOn has developed a series of 3D models of a... natomical structures with micrometric precision to simulate surgical procedures. The technology integrates virtual reality and simulates physical reality that replicates tissues and surgical scenarios in a hyper-realistic way. As an example, the technology does so by artificially duplicating the human brain with a surgically removable tumor inside the skull box. The uniqueness of UpSurgeOn's platform consists of its integration of physical and virtual anatomical and surgical representations in advanced and innovative psychomotor training sequences. Importantly, UpSurgeOn’s innovation eliminates the need to use human anatomical preparations of cadaveric derivation. With its recently expanded capital base, UpSurgeOn will be able to accelerate the development of new solutions, both with the application of new materials and with the digital technologies applied to VR. The aim is to progress from mere physiological simulation to a pathological one, even up to the realization of patient-specific solutions. UpSurgeOn has already begun to widen the applications from neurosurgery to other surgical specializations.More