Shane Farritor, co-founder and chief technology officer of Virtual Incision, is the inaugural winner of the University of Nebraska system’s Faculty IP Innovation and Commercialization Award. Virtual Incision, a member of Bio Nebraska, is working to commercialize miniature surgical robots for minimally invasive procedures.
Article by Melissa Lee | NU system
Nebraska’s Shane Farritor is the inaugural winner of the University of Nebraska system’s intellectual property award.
The Faculty IP Innovation and Commercialization Award, one of the President’s Excellence Awards, was created to honor NU faculty who have developed and nurtured intellectual property from concept to licensing or startup business.
Farritor, the David and Nancy Lederer Professor of Engineering, is chief technology officer of Virtual Incision, a Nebraska-based startup that he co-founded with Dmitry Oleynikov, former University of Nebraska Medical Center professor of surgery. The duo’s goal is to commercialize miniature surgical robots they developed together.