Bertin Nahum, and the robot his company created -

Quantum Surgical

  • At the start of the year,

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     presents those who will be in the news in 2021 thanks to their associative action, their sporting performance, their entrepreneurial spirit or their creativity.

  • In Montpellier, the company Quantum Surgical is preparing to launch the marketing of its medical robot, which supports the surgeon's gesture in the treatment of liver cancer.

  • It is Bertin Nahum, who was crowned among the best entrepreneurs in the world in 2012 with the company Medtech, who co-founded this Montpellier nugget.

In 2021, the robot from the Montpellier company Quantum Surgical will be invited to hospitals around the world.

Called Epione, this revolutionary tool, whose commercialization is imminent, will make it possible, in the context of the treatment of liver cancer, to facilitate the actions of the practitioner, who will be able to precisely target the tumor thanks to the robot's "arm", combined with a powerful software linked to the imaging system.

"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 the Montpellier Bertin Nahum , who co-founded Quantum Surgical, in 2017, and now employs 62 people.

A world premiere last June in Montpellier

On June 4, a clinical trial allowed Professor Boris Guiu, at the Montpellier University Hospital, to successfully operate, for the first time, a 56-year-old patient using 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, ”said the professor, after the intervention.

The Quantum Surgical robot - Quantum Surgical

Very minimally invasive, the technique increases patient and surgeon comfort, 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 nearing completion.

But Bertin Nahum, the co-founder of the Montpellier start-up, is not at his first attempt: it was he who, from 2002, had created in the Hérault Medtech, a pioneering company in the 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 in 2012 by

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magazine

among the greatest entrepreneurs in the world, behind Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and James Cameron. .

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