Welcome to a new section of the Biomateria web-site – the Biomateria
Transplant-Shop.
This will carry information on new products and
technologies from companies and institutions that are looking for partners or
licensees, requests for new technology, enquiries from prospective partners for
R&D projects and details. Wherever possible, contact details will be given
so that you can get directly in touch with our service user. If you want to put
something on this site, just Email us at biomateria@biobridge.co.uk,
or send your details and information through on the ‘Submit’
form.
Technology and collaborator offers this month:
Technology and collaborator/licensee requests this month:
URGENT REQUEST:
José Antonio Bea, of the University of
Zaragoza Spain, Tel: +34 976 76 10 00 Ext. 5113 fax: +34 976 73 19 12, Email jabea@posta.unizar.es,
urgently needs the price, availability and dimensions of UHMWPE products
(Medical Grade Material) rods and sheets machined to rectangular blocks, in
order to finalise some research proposals. Please send the information as
quickly as possible.
URGENT REQUEST:
Dr Michael Chau, of the Department of
Biochemistry, GlycoBiology Research Lab, The University of Hong Kong, is
carrying out work on spinal cord regeneration. He would like to purchase
collagen tubes, with inner diameter of 1.25mm, to use as biodegradable guides.
Please contact him through e-mail h9290199@hkucc.hku.hk,
or by fax +852-28551254 Attn Michael CHAU and copy biomateria@biobridge.co.uk
in your reply, as a courtesy.
Carbon fibre for vertebral
interbody cage (ref. A981221)
A small French company is looking for a new biomaterials
technology based on carbon fibre. The new technology sought should be applicable
to the following: Stabilis, titanium posterior instrumentation
of the spine thoracic lumbar and sacral osteosynthesis - vertebral interbody
cage (lumbar degenerative disease, spondylolisthesis, spine trauma, spine
tumor).
Contact point: Dr. Alex Smeets, East of England Innovation
Relay Centre, St John's Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge CB4 0WS, UK
Tel: +44 1223 422210, Fax: +44 1223 420844 E-mail: relaycentre@stjohns.co.uk
Multilayered Hydroxyapatite-Glass
plasma sprayed coatings for Biomedical Applications (ref. PLASMA03)
A small Portuguese research institute is looking for
biomaterials companies for the further development of plasma sprayed
hydroxyapatite/glass mixtures on Ti6Al4V alloys for
biomedical applications.
Contact point: Dr. Alex Smeets, East of England Innovation
Relay Centre, St John's Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge CB4 0WS, UK
Tel: +44 1223 422210, Fax: +44 1223 420844 E-mail: relaycentre@stjohns.co.uk
A small Portuguese research institute has developed and
patented novel glass-reinforced hydroxyapatite composites which present several
advantages over commercial available implants and prostheses for orthopaedic,
dental applications and drug delivery carriers. The organisation is looking for
industrial companies that may be interested in the production, commercialization
of novel products and also further developments.
Contact point: Dr. Alex Smeets, East of England Innovation
Relay Centre, St John's Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge CB4 0WS, UK
Tel: +44 1223 422210, Fax: +44 1223 420844 E-mail: relaycentre@stjohns.co.uk
Novel Si3N4/bioglass
composites for biomedical applications (ref. BIOGLASS05)
A small Portuguese research institute has developed novel
Si3N4-bioglass composites. Depending on their composition,
these composites can present bioactive behaviour with very high fracture
toughness for medical applications, KIC=3.0-4.7MPa.m1/2, making them suitable
for high-load applications such as spinal implants, or bioinert behaviour,
making them suitable for articular prostheses and components. The organisation
is looking for companies and research institutes interested in the manufacture
of implants and prostheses and further developments of these novel composites.
Contact point: Dr. Alex Smeets, East of England Innovation
Relay Centre, St John's Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge CB4 0WS, UK
Tel: +44 1223 422210, Fax: +44 1223 420844 E-mail: relaycentre@stjohns.co.uk
Photochemistry of collagen
(ref. NCU-03)
A Polish research institute is looking for partners for a
project to use biophysical and biochemical methods to study the photochemical
stability of different types of collagen containing another substances. The
results might be used in the cosmetics and biomedical industry.
Contact point: Dr. Alex Smeets, East of England Innovation
Relay Centre, St John's Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge CB4 0WS, UK
Tel: +44 1223 422210, Fax: +44 1223 420844 E-mail: relaycentre@stjohns.co.uk
Development of an artificial
urinary sphincter for human incontinence (ref. 990709E)
A small French company is looking for SME partners as well
as research partners with expertise in magnetic control and biomaterials, for a
project to solve the incontinence problem by replacing the old sphinter muscle
with an artificial sphincter, to be controlled by magnetic induction triggered
by the patient.
Contact point: Dr. Alex Smeets, East of England Innovation
Relay Centre, St John's Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge CB4 0WS, UK
Tel: +44 1223 422210, Fax: +44 1223 420844 E-mail: relaycentre@stjohns.co.uk
Marketing company for
biomaterials products in Middle East and Israel (ref. ADT40230)
An Israeli pharmaceutical company is interested in
marketing finished biomaterials products in the Middle and Near East. The
company is active in the wound-care sector as well as other medical sectors. If
you have biomedical and biomaterials products available and wish to find out
more, please Email leads@biobridge.co.uk,
quoting ‘ADT40230’ and giving your contact details. We will then put you in
touch with the company.
Belgian
tissue engineering R&D company looking for collaborators (ref PLS1040)
Dr
Petros Lenas, a researcher at the Starlab Research Institute in Belgium is
working on projects in tissue engineering. Starlab has a multi- and
interdisciplinary approach combining mathematical and computational methods with
advanced experimental procedures ranging from material science to gene
technology. A goal is to study the nonlinear phenomena involved in tissue
organization in bioreactors and incorporate these phenomena in the design
methodologies of bio-artificial organs. Starlab is currently working on the
control of complexity in the microenvironment of porous materials used as
scaffolds, correlating geometrical characteristics of porous structure with the
gene expression patterns of the cells. One
aim is to understand the metabolic heterogeneity in tissue cells residing in
different positions, which is necessary for cooperative interactions that
stabilise the function of organs in vivo and could improve the function of
bioartificial organs if they could be stimulated in these. Dr Lenas would be
grateful for information on organisations and companies involved in biomaterials
that may have an interest in exchanging information and possibly collaborate
with Starlab to elucidate the structure(biomaterial)-function(tissue cells)
relations. For further information please contact him at petros@starlab.net,
or Starlab, Boulevarde St.-Michel 47, B-1040 Brussels Belgium, Tel: 32-2-7400748
Fax: 32-2-7429654. Starlab’s web-site is http://www.starlab.org
Goutham Krishna Gorti, a
post-doc fellow at Stanford University in the Tissue-Engineering lab, is looking
to use hyaluronan derivatives as a scaffold material to grow
cartilage. If you make this scaffolding material and can supply it to him,
please contact him, goutham.gorti@stanford.edu.
Innoventions Ltd is an
Israeli start-up company dealing with a disposable urologic device made of
silicon. Innoventions is looking for coating and sealing technologies that will
improve the performance of this device and reduce surface friction. Contact Eran
Herzcowicz, R&D Manager, innovil@netvision.net.il
Justin
Foreman is interested in finding out where he can order Ni-Ti in
powdered form. Please contact him on tel: +1 336-334-7760 x 255 or +1
336-691-74319 if no answer at above extension, fax: +1 336-334-7716 or email foremanj@ncat.edu
Karachi-based company Solution
Supplies, suppliers of orthopaedic & medical instruments and implants, is
interested in products for distribution in Pakistan. Please contact Mathew
D'Mello tel : 92-21-7763360 or 7762076 fax : 92-21-7762076 or 7764536 or 7737882
e-mail ssupply@cyber.net.pk
Rexam, based in Wales, is an
established polymer film manufacturer active in providing materials into devices
sectors such as wound healing. It is now interested in adapting its products and
collaborating as a raw material and biomaterials supplier with tissue
engineering, biomaterials scaffold and other companies and institutes. Please
contact John.V.Scott@rexam.co.uk
for further information and to express an interest in working with them.
BioBridge Associates is
looking for collaborators in the fields of identification (bar-coding,
integrated identification systems, etc), data analysis, storage and networking
and health provision (hospitals, fund-holders, insurance companies), throughout
EU, to elaborate a proposal for potential EU funding on device traceability.
Contact Meredith Lloyd-Evans biomateria@biobridge.co.uk
if you are interested in discussing this.
Surface-active and gas-carrying
systems for the protection of vessel, tissues and organs during surgery (ref.
PA/PA/64)
A consortium consisting of universities from France,
Germany, UK and Italy as well as a large UK company and a German SME is looking
for an additonal partner for a project to obtain information on the biological
properties that depend on the physical characteristics of oxygen-carrying and
surface active systems (PFC emulsions) for biomedical applications. It is
envisaged that such emulsions will enhance tissue oxygenation under normal
breathing condition (air) and also will protect blood vessels and organs against
ischemic/reperfusion injuries and nutritional deficiency. The partner should be
an company experienced in the production of infusable fat emulsions in an
industrial scale. The main roles of this partner are consultations and
discussions concerning production, stabilisation and sterilisation of whole
emulsions as surface active systems and the transfer from laboratory to
industrial scale. Furthermore the partner will play a decisive role in
consultations and assistance concerning selection, performance and evaluation of
preclinical trials for the approach of surface active emulsions systems for
therapeutical applications. There will be a responsibility for production and delivery of small amounts of
commercial infusable (fat) emulsions and physiological solutions for comparing
examinations on the influence on living material.
Contact point: Dr. Alex Smeets, East of England Innovation
Relay Centre, St John's Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge CB4 0WS, UK
Tel: +44 1223 422210, Fax: +44 1223 420844 E-mail: relaycentre@stjohns.co.uk
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