Dr. George Koch

Yeah, that's one thing when I started being interested in reconstructive urology as a resident and starting to think about projects with Dr. Johnson, with Dr. Kaufman, like thinking about where the oncology space is and where the reconstructive urology space is from a research standpoint.

And thinking about how different they are, but maybe also how we could model some of what we do in recon versus what they were already doing in oncology from a research standpoint, I think was kind of always the thing that I used to try to figure out how we were going to do, you know, XYZ projects.

Yeah.

No, I am thinking about the same thing.

And this is an idea that I would love if someone would scoop because it's, I think, a cool idea.

But I don't know that I'm the urologist to do it.

But I would love coloplast has hydrophilic coatings.

And I was talking to Dr. Wessels a bunch about it would be great if we could.

you know, we sisto lots of our structures prior to treatment, right?

You know, sometimes it's just a rug, but oftentimes we have a sisto too.

And what if we could like get a biopsy and then we had a hydrophilic balloon and we said, oh, like,

This is the medication for this stricture.

This is the medication for that stricture.

You know, you just need one device and you could, you know, do some sort of, you know, med soak just like we do for, you know, some people do with their implants, you know, based on culture or based on in a biogram for their institution.

You know, you could do the same thing for stricture and pathology.

I've always thought that would be there'll be a really cool idea.

But you're right, the money's got to be there from industry or from the NIH or from philanthropy, wherever it comes from.

And it is, you know, I think reconstructive urology sometimes might be a harder space to find funding for.

Yeah.

One place where, you know, I think that maybe, you know, if we're going to use urologic oncology as like our model for what we could potentially do for research ideas in the future, you know,