HEALiX, SSF, 2019-2024
Advanced wound care materials for non-healing wounds
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) has funded the project "HEALiX: Advanced Wound Care Materials for Non-Healing Wounds". The project will be led together with Prof. Daniel Aili (LiU), Prof. Torbjörn Bengtsson (ÖrU), Dr. Johan Junker (LiU/KMC RÖ).
Non-healing wounds leads to large suffering and are an enormous burden to the healthcare system. In a typical hospital setting, 25-40% of all beds are occupied by patients with wounds, and more than half of the health care resources in the outpatient setting are spent on wound treatment. HEALiX will bring together clinical and industrial wound care experts and leading academic researchers to address this huge medical and societal problem. Our aim is to develop a new generation of advanced but affordable multifunctional wound dressing materials that will give clinicians new and better means to go beyond wound management and instead focus on wound healing. We will jointly develop and evaluate advanced nanocellulose-based materials for moist wound healing and novel strategies to combine these materials with robust embedded diagnostic capabilities to facilitate treatment optimization. Moreover, strategies to combine nanocellulose wound dressing with peptide-based antimicrobial compounds will be explored to suppress infection and eradicate biofilms in non-healing wounds.
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