The innovative business accelerator of the city ​​of Rostov-on-Don  is a project initiated by the Department of the city's economy with the aim of supporting innovative projects from concept to implementation.

The innovative accelerator has been successfully implemented since 2019, 60 Don innovators have become its participants.

One of the examples of the successful implementation of scientific and technological development was the project of the participant Nikita Polupanov ( GAMMA-DETECTOR LLC ) - a startup to develop a medical device for instant intraoperative radionuclide diagnostics and biopsy of sentinel lymph nodes.

The development allows you to instantly determine the location of "sentinel lymph nodes" during operations to remove breast cancer, malignant neoplasms on the skin (disseminating melanoma) and other tissues of the patient - and choose the tactics of surgical treatment, without wasting time on procedures for removing the lymph node and the subsequent performance of a classic biopsy ...

The history of the creation of the company began in 2014. Then the team of Rostov innovators first came up with the idea of ​​such a device. Various versions of detectors for receiving radiation have been tested. After going through a number of options, the developers settled on the current version and for the next few years they brought the version of an additional working device.

In 2019, after passing the innovative business accelerator programNikita's project attracted investments in the amount of 1.5 million rubles and then received a grant from the Innovation Promotion Fund in the amount of 3 million rubles.

Thanks to the accelerator program, the company managed to work out a value proposition, calculate a financial model, complete work on creating an industrial design of the device, which made it possible to find and interest investors.

The innovative device has undergone many experiments at the bases of various medical institutions and has great potential for use in all major Russian oncological centers.

To date, GAMMA-DETECTOR LLC has  managed to create a device that is really useful for people and to start selling it on pre-orders. The development team has moved towards registering the device and the company is separated from the start of sales only by official registration.