The NASS Innovation Summit, held June 11-12 in Rosemont, IL (near Chicago), takes you on the journey of bringing medical innovations to market. Comprehensive and highly-interactive sessions will cover all areas of medical innovation and attendees will hear insights from innovation VIPs and pioneers with proven track records of success. The Summit provides a unique opportunity to network and collaborate with top business executives, influential investors and other medical professionals as well as discover key contacts and mentorship opportunities.
One of the highlights of the Summit will be live innovation pitches by inventors and startups that will be given immediate feedback by a panel of experts.
Pitches will take place on Friday, June 12 starting at 1pm and include:
Renovos Biologics: RENOVITE BMP2
Agnieszka Janeczek
Despite decades of use, there is currently no safe, reliable and effective way to deliver the powerful bone-forming biologics needed by surgeons for spinal fusion.
NanoHive
Ian Helmar
Hive Soft titanium 3D printed spinal fusion implants, with sensor technology in development with partner Canary Medical.
U-Trax: Spinal Traction Robot
Kolja Klug
Current intraoperative and ICU spinal traction relies on outdated weight-and-pulley systems that are cumbersome, imprecise, and limit adjustability, leading to inconsistent force application and safety risks.
Rehabwheel Inc.: AI LegMaker™ — Intelligent Rehabilitation Therapy Platform
Nikita Chizhov
Patients with lower-limb impairments, including wheelchair users, stroke survivors, and individuals with neurological or orthopedic conditions, face limited access to continuous, high-frequency rehabilitation outside clinical settings. Current therapy models are constrained by cost, availability of providers, and lack of scalable solutions for home and community use, leading to suboptimal recovery outcomes.
Spinal Simplicity
Haley DeBarge
Minuteman: Load-barring complaints for elderly patients suffering from degenerative instability. Liberty SI & Patriot SI: SI Fusion implants for patients suffering from SI Pain.
Adtiva 3D: Virtual Reality Spinal Endoscopy Teleproctoring
Bernardo Drummond, MD
Remote proctoring by an experienced endoscopic spine surgeon to assist surgeons during their learning curve.
FoxEyes Corporation: F1 VSR™ (Vision-Based Surgical Robotics and AI Navigation Platform)
Min Seo
Current surgical navigation systems rely on infrared tracking and line-of-sight-dependent markers, resulting in frequent workflow disruptions, prolonged setup times (>60 minutes), and suboptimal accuracy (3–5 mm). There is a critical unmet need for a faster, more reliable, and highly accurate navigation solution that minimizes intraoperative interruptions and improves surgical precision.
Facet Dynamics, Inc.: Restore—A Lumbar Facet Joint Replacement Device
Chris Sturm, MD
Designed to provide a superior alternative to lumbar fusion procedures. Potential applications in idiopathic adolescent scoliosis. Potential adjunct to lumbar disc replacement procedures.
NeuroAxis Solutions, LLC: Axialytic
Jack Johnson
Accurate anatomical localization of spinal cord injuries, spinal cord infarcts, and peripheral nerve injuries requires synthesis of complex neurological examination findings that many clinicians — particularly in emergency and primary care settings — lack the training or time to perform efficiently. No standardized clinical decision support tool currently exists to guide real-time localization using structured physical examination inputs, resulting in diagnostic delays, unnecessary imaging, and missed injuries.
Jacobson Medical Services
Daniel Jacobson
New Prototype: Improved drill tool and improved surgical suction.
Cutting Edge Spine: T-Fix 3Dsi Joint Fusion System
Randy Roof
Leveraging our extensive 'patent-granted' portfolio relative to porous screw fixation for any/all orthopedic application(s), we will be able to offer positively transforming technology that addresses both near term and long term fixation issues associated with 'bottom of spinal construct' failures when instrumenting multiple levels. The implant system is 'passively smart' in nature affording potential of eliminating many construct failures/revisions as we potentially provide for much more solid, rigid, fixation sooner than traditional technologies used in said regard; with long term cycling and apposition potentially much greater as well thusly ensuring both near term and long term construct integrity in the pelvis.
Spark Spine: Electrical Mechanical Polymer (EMP)
Luke Diehl
Electrical Mechanical Polymer (EMP) harnesses the natural weight and movement of the human body to generate electricity, with the potential to promote faster and more reliable healing. “The world’s first implants that health with the speed of electricity” Delayed or failed unions, weak bone-hardware interfaces, pain and suffering due to post-operative micromotion, patient non-compliance with current bone growth stimulation modalities.
3DSK Spine: The Bombyx Disc
Kenneth Blank, PhD
There currently is no "go-to" for spine arthroplasty devices. Our approach redefines motion preservation from a biological and scientifically true biomechanical perspective. We plan to restore motion for the aging spine.
Amber Implants
Vincent Garde
Amber Implants is redefining vertebral fracture treatment by moving beyond augmentation and fixation toward a unified system that restores structural integrity and enables targeted stabilization - while preserving mobility.
Amphix Bio
Nick Sather, CEO
AMFX‑100 is a peptide‑based moldable putty that binds and amplifies the patient’s own BMP‑2 to drive spinal fusion — without the cost and safety risks of exogenous rhBMP‑2.
Lenoss Medical, Inc.
Dom Messerli, CEO
There are no biological solutions available to treat spinal compression fractures. The current standard of care requires the injection of synthetic PMMA bone cement, which is associated with the risk of cement leakage into the patients hearts and lungs. Lenoss Medical offers the first and only biological, structural allograft bone implant to treat and physiologically heal the fractures while enabling the physicians to place natural bone where more bone is needed most. The OsteoPearl solution also completely eliminates all risks associated with standard PMMA bone cement.
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