Iranian Knowledge-Based Firms Produce Several Medical Products
Ali Farhadi, the managing director of an Iranian knowledge-based company, told ANA that “we are the producer of all types of chromatography resins, and we have established our production unit in the Middle East for the first time. This specialized product is used in the purification of recombinant drugs and is used in industries that produce biological and anti-cancer drugs”.
Also, for the first time in Iran, the technologists of another knowledge-based company succeeded in production of the effective ingredient and the final product of Dotarem (gadotrate meglumine) with an Iranian brand. Dotarm is a contrast agent used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
“Our company is active in the production of contrast agents. For the first time in Iran, we have been able to produce both the effective ingredient and the final product of the Iran-made gadotrate meglumine drug; the production of the effective ingredient of this medicine was monopolized by a few prominent countries in the world in the past, and now we have been able to achieve the technology of making it with the modern methods of the world,” Kamran Dashti, a pharmacist and a member of the knowledge-based company, told ANA.
“This drug is used as an intravenous injection for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In terms of quality, it has all the FDA approvals of US and Europe. From a clinical point of view, more than 30,000 drugs have been injected into patients and so far there have been no side effects,” he added.
Meantime, the technologists of another Iranian knowledge-based company succeeded in designing and building a disposable system of negative pressure of 8 mm of mercury on the surface of the wound. The system is used for wound repair of all closed surgical incisions, including wound repair of cardiovascular, abdominal, gynecological, obstetric, and orthopedic surgeries.
“Our company has been active in the field of producing emergency ventilators for years. We have also produced a disposable system of negative pressure of 8 mm Hg on the surface of the wound. previously, for vacuum therapy, a large device was placed next to the patient's bed. Now this device with very light weight and small size can be placed in the pocket of the patient and it can treat the wounds of the patients very easily and quickly within seven days,” Fatemeh Mokhtari Jafari, the executive director of the knowledge-based company, told ANA.
“This device can be used to treat any type of wound; but for breast cancer patients (who intend to quickly rebuild their wound site in a short period of time), it is more useful since they will not have any infection in their wound,” she noted.
Also, the researchers of another knowledge-based company in Iran succeeded in designing and manufacturing a 3D printer of medical equipment. Meantime, in another company, Mina Shafiyee, the director of research and development department of the knowledge-based firm stationed at the industrial town of Fars province, said that the company operates in various fields of jaw and face, making all types of implants, implants in the body, spine and sports medicine, etc.
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