Biomedical Textile Structures Laboratory opens
Specialty Fabrics Review | January 2010
Forty years ago, Dr. David Brookstein, dean of Philadelphia University, was an undergraduate in the former Textile and Sciences College. In late October, he and the University president, Dr. Stephen Spinelli, presided at the grand opening of the new Biomedical Textile Structures Laboratory. The lab, funded by a $1.25 million grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, will work with medical researchers from Drexel University College of Medicine to develop nanofiber platforms for biomedical textiles. Implantable textiles, such as the bifurcated aortic arch graft (developed at Philadelphia University), can speed repair of human tissues. Other textile uses include sutures, mesh fabrics for hernia and abdominal repair, vascular implants for heart problems and support for implants of engineered tissue.
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6:31 am CST
Interesting idea . . . I wonder where it name came from and who pushed it with DCED? The bifurcated aortic arch graft was developed many decades ago at PU and all of the other examples (e.g., sutures, mesh fabrics for hernia and abdominal repair, vascular implants for heart problems and support for implants of engineered tissue are in production at this writing). Drexel is certainly a capable and productive institution in biomedical work. This is old news: Cornell has been doing this kind of work since before 2005: http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/Outreach/upload/Nano-Textiles%20Are%20Engineering%20a%20Safer%20World.pdf
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