Biodegradable polymers in Siberian
Krasnoyarsk will start producing biodegradable polymers for medical needs at the end of 2012
Ekaterina Igorevna Shishatskaya is a Doctor of Biological Sciences, winner of the Russian President's Prize for Young Scientists in 2009, the Award of Outstanding Scientists of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2008 and the Academician Lavrenov Prize in 2008.
The cost of the project, according to Ekaterina Shishatskaya, will be about 120 million rubles. At the development stage, it was supported by the Regional Science Fund in the amount of 5.3 million rubles.
The necessary equipment with a total cost of 38 million rubles was purchased in Switzerland and South Korea.
"The building is provided to us by the SFU. This is about 50% of the cost. Funds for the design, purchase and installation of equipment – 60 million rubles – were allocated by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation under the megagrant program. The design capacity of the mini-plant is up to 100 kg of biodegradable polymer materials per year, no more is needed yet," Ekaterina Shishatskaya notes.
Products made of biodegradable polymer materials are currently undergoing clinical trials in medical institutions of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. These are tubes for the bile ducts and polymer-coated surgical nets for postoperative strengthening of the abdominal cavity. In addition, preparations are underway to test biodegradable surgical thread, tubular products, three-dimensional matrices for modeling bone, cartilage, soft tissues, and human skin.
"Suture threads from our polymer dissolve after the wound is overgrown. Copies of damaged bones and joints serve until the bone is restored, then the implant disappears, self–destructs," explained E. Shishatskaya.
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