CWRU creates company to market its HoloAnatomy software that teaches cadaver-free anatomy

Students learning anatomy by looking at a hologram sounds like something from a university in the far future. But that’s how it’s done right now at Case Western Reserve University.

When CWRU developed the 3D HoloAnatomy® Software Suite of medical education software several years ago to teach anatomy without the use of cadavers, it soon learned there was an appetite for this technological advancement at universities around the world. But universities are not as nimble as business startups. So CWRU created the company AlensiaXR to market its HoloAnatomy software. “(Universities) are built to teach and learn,” said AlensiaXR CEO Mark Day. “You need a private sector organization to be able to (advance a new technology) as a business.”

In the future, AlensiaXR plans to expand the HoloAnatomy software to other medical academic subjects, such as physiology.