The Patent Office of the Republic of Poland has granted researchers at the Gdansk Medical University a patent for ‘An element for making a heart valve and a method of producing modified bacterial cellulose for making this element’. The invention was created in collaboration with the Ship Technology Centre, the University of Gdansk, Gdansk University of Technology, the Zbigniew Religa Foundation for Cardiac Surgery Development, and the Bowil Biotech Company.

The invention is the result of research carried out under the project ‘Preclinical studies on the potential use of original Polish bionanocellulose (BNC) in regenerative medicine in the aspect of bioimplants in cardiac and vascular surgery’.

The far-reaching achievement of the researchers is the development of an excellent biomaterial that can be used as a bioimplant in the cardiovascular system. This has been demonstrated in subsequent experiments conducted in animal models of implanted vascular prostheses and prosthetic heart valves made from bacterial cellulose.

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