{"id":2349,"date":"2010-12-06T15:35:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T20:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2010-12-06T15:35:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T20:35:27","slug":"medical-implant-coating-made-from-univ-licensed-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=2349","title":{"rendered":"Medical Implant Coating Made from Univ. Licensed Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2351\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/AorticStent_NHLBI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2351\" title=\"AorticStent_NHLBI\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/AorticStent_NHLBI.jpg\" alt=\"Stent for aortic valve replacement (NHLBI)\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/AorticStent_NHLBI.jpg 250w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/AorticStent_NHLBI-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stent for aortic valve replacement (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The long-term performance of medical implant devices, like heart valves and cardiac stents, could be enhanced substantially by <a href=\"http:\/\/main.uab.edu\/Sites\/MediaRelations\/articles\/82198\/\">new bio-coating technology<\/a> recently licensed to University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) spin-off company Endomimetics LLC.<\/p>\n<p>The patent-pending technology is a coating for implants, called bio-nanomatrix, made with a bio-engineered nanomaterial that mimics natural endothelium, the substance that lines blood vessels. This biocompatibility &#8212; the ability to promote the body&#8217;s acceptance of a implant device &#8212; can help prevent post-operative tissue scarring that sometimes leads to thrombosis, or blood-flow blockage, among the reported 10 million people who receive implants annually, at a high human and financial cost.<\/p>\n<p>The bio-nanomatrix is the only such coating of its kind, though some similar products are in the development pipeline. The bio-nanomaterial, developed with UAB medical and engineering researchers, has been licensed by the UAB Research Foundation &#8212; the university&#8217;s commercialization office &#8212; to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endomimetics.com\/\">Endomimetics LLC<\/a>. The company was founded by the coating&#8217;s inventors: UAB biomedical engineering professor Ho-Wook Jun and medical professor Brigitta Brott.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-term performance of medical implant devices, like heart valves and cardiac stents, could be enhanced substantially by new bio-coating technology recently licensed to University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) spin-off company Endomimetics LLC. The patent-pending technology is a coating for implants, called bio-nanomatrix, made with a bio-engineered nanomaterial that mimics natural endothelium, the substance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[31,86,74,84,77,18],"class_list":["post-2349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-p","category-products","tag-biomedical","tag-engineering","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-licensing","tag-medical-device","tag-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2353,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions\/2353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}