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Who Are We? Benno Groosman, the Entrepreneurial CEO
Not everyone is brave enough to take the leadership of a ground-breaking start-up like Surge-on Medical. Luckily, we have Benno. From the innovative kid to the businessman Originally from the historical city of Delft, the Netherlands, Benno has always been on the...
read moreWhat a Surgeon Thinks of Surge-on Medical’s Technology
Innovation just for the sake of innovation is not valuable anymore. The current developments in healthcare must meet a specific market need or fulfill the needs of patients and surgeons. In order to improve healthcare, researchers and designers must know their...
read moreA Researcher’s Perspective on Surge-on Medical’s Steerable Platform Technology
Can simplicity and elegance be detrimental in surgical instruments? What is our platform technology’s potential? Why are we the first to craft such an elegant system? Few people are better qualified to answer these questions than Dr. Gabriëlle Tuijthof. Gabriëlle has...
read moreNow Open for Investments: Surge-on Medical Targets to Raise up to €5 Million
"Scaling and Driving Digital Health Innovation in Europe to the Next Level." This is not only the motto of yesterday's premiere celebration for the launch of Aescuvest.eu, the first pan-European financing platform in the health sector, but rather the goal that we at...
read moreSurge-on Medical: Anatomy of a European funding campaign
You may know all the startups aescuvest has presented so far but you do not know what happens behind the scenes. This is why today we would like to show you how aescuvest’s scouts and vets start-ups and how much work we as a platform and the start-ups involved put...
read moreSurge-on Medical’s innovation and its market potential
An innovative technology is only useful as long as it fulfills a market need and provides real value to its users. In this regard, we had a talk with Mr. Bart and Niels van Straten, Board of Directors of Van Straten Medical. Van Straten Medical is a Dutch manufacturer...
read moreSurge-on Medical: From the Netherlands to Europe
Hello from Benno, Tim and Audry, from the Netherlands! These are exciting times for healthcare innovations. Every day you are reading about amazing new technologies and equipment that are solving issues that seemed insolvable only a few years ago. As Surge-on Medical,...
read moreNew scientific article on our steerable mechanism for laparoscopy!
A new scientific article about our unique steering mechanism has been published at Surgical Endoscopy. The study about the usability of this technology in a laparoscopic instrument culminated in the paper “A new modular mechanism that allows full detachability and...
read moreSurge-on Medical at MedtecLIVE 2019 in Nuremberg
Surge-on Medical will attend the MedtecLIVE medical technology event in Nuremberg, on May 21-23. With the support of EIT Health, Surge-on Medical will exhibit and pitch in front of visitors interested in the latest innovations in medical technology. MedtecLIVE is the...
read moreSurge-on Medical at T4M Medical Technology Expo in Stuttgart
Surge-on Medical will attend the T4M – Medical Technology Expo on May 7, in Stuttgart. Invited by Medtech Zwo magazine, Surge-on Medical will present in front of investors, industry partners and fair visitors at the pitching stage of the T4M Start-up World. As part of...
read moreCEO Surge-on Medical at Sachs ELSCEO Forum in Zurich
On February 25-26th, Surge-on Medical will attend the Sachs 12th Annual European Life Sciences CEO Forum (ELSCEO), in Zurich, Switzerland. Surge-on Medical’s CEO, Benno Groosman, will showcase the company to several world-leading investors and corporates during...
read moreAlekzander Hoogeweegen wins IMDI Talent Award 2017-2018
Alekzander Hoogeweegen, a former graduation intern at Surge-on Medical, was selected on January 18th, 2019 as the winner of the IMDI Talent Award 2017-2018 for his research based on Surge-on Medical's patented technology. The Innovative Medical Devices Initiative...
read moreThe Three Pillars of Surge-on Medical’s Business Model
Just in case you wondered how Surge-on Medical makes money, look no further. We do not solely rely on the unique surgical instruments we are developing. In fact, our patented platform technology enables us to have multiple revenue streams we would like to share with...
read moreSurge-on Medical CTO Tim Horeman awarded with first Athanasiou ABME Award
Our CTO Tim Horeman received the first annual Athanasiou ABME Award at the Biomedical Engineering Society's (BMES) Annual Meeting, held on 17-20th October in Atlanta, GA, USA. BMES is the professional community for biomedical engineering and bioengineering. In 2017,...
read moreSurge-on Medical selected for mission to Shenzhen
Surge-on Medical has been selected to take part in the EIT Health – Go2China outbound mission to Shenzhen, in November 2018. There, Surge-on Medical will meet with distributors, manufacturers, investors and key opinion leaders interested in our steerable...
read moreCTO Tim Horeman elected as member of the EAES
Surge-on Medical’s CTO Tim Horeman has been elected as a member of the Technology Committee of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES). As of June 1st. 2018, Tim is part of the committee for a term of at least two years. EAES has acquired a...
read moreSurge-on Medical’s intern Rosnelo Fernandes graduates with honors
We are pleased to announce that our research intern, Rosnelo Fernandes, graduated with honors from his master studies in Mechanical Engineering after completing his graduation thesis at Surge-on Medical. Surge-on Medical is in the current process of developing...
read moreSteerable Grasper selected for EAES conference
Our Steerable Grasper for laparoscopic surgeries has been selected for the Amazing Technology Symposium as one of the ten disruptive technologies in laparoscopy at the European Association of Endoscopic Surgery conference in London! The EAES is a growing and dynamic...
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