Royan Institute in Iran Produces Polymer Dressings for Diabetic Wounds
“In addition to the treatment of diabetic wounds, the new dressings have an effective role on bedsores or pressure and cavity wounds,” Hamed Da’emi, a member of the scientific board of Royan Research Institute, told ANA.
He underlined that the dressing can be used for treatment of different types of wounds, and said, “A special dressing exists for burns and vascular wounds, each based on specific conditions, but no dressings have yet been produced for these types of wounds in Iran, and now we have produced it for the first time in the country.”
Da’emi noted that the effectiveness of the dressing has been tested on several patients and it will enter the clinical trial phase in the future, adding that doctors have confirmed that the quality of this dressing is equal to foreign products.
In a relevant development in April, Iranian scientists at Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology’s Cord Blood Bank had succeeded in production of wound dressings by using umbilical cord blood and amniotic membranes.
Iranian researchers and technologists at Royan Cord Blood Bank have managed to produce useful and valuable products like culture medium for stem cell proliferation and wound dressings by using biological waste from childbirth and umbilical cord blood in addition to storing 185,000 umbilical cord blood samples.
Royan Institute was established in 1991 by a group of researchers and physicians in Iran University of Medical Sciences of ACECR as an outpatient surgery center to provide medical services to infertile couples as well as research and training in reproductive sciences.
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