Our vision is to remove the need for the skin graft
Inspiration
Severe burns and large wounds are currently treated by skin grafts, which are debilitating and extremely painful for the patient. SKIN Tissue Engineering was established to develop new and innovative products based on a biodegradable polyurethane platform, which will abolish the need for skin grafts forever.
Technology
SKIN has pioneered a process of growing a patient’s own Composite Cultured Skin (CCS) in a specially designed prototype bioreactor. CCS will be used in place of a skin graft and represents a paradigm shift in the way burns and wounds will be treated globally. SKIN has a granted patent in Australia and patents pending in the United States and Europe.
Latest News
Mini-Symposium (Oxford) 21 June: Wound repair and stem cells
Professor John Greenwood recently presented 'Bringing Burn Care into the 21st Century' at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in Headington, Oxford on 21 June 2017. The talk, an update to the Hunterian Lecture delivered last November in London, was well received and has stimulated further calls for BTM and CCS to be available soon in the UK.
read moreRoyal College of Surgeons of England publish Professor John Greenwood’s 2016 Hunterian Lecture
PolyNovo is pleased to announce that the Royal College of Surgeons of England have published Professor John
Greenwood’s 2016 Hunterian Lecture. This paper outlines the evolution of burn care and the potential shift
in patient care through the development of NovoSorb BTM (Biodegradable Temporizing Matrix).
read morePodcast: Prof John Greenwood on the will to live, burn trauma and developing a skin factory
To remove a burn you need a six inch blade and a steady hand, our guest Dr John Greenwood says. This is just one part of a day in the life of the renowned plastic surgeon and Medical Director of the Adult Burn Centre at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
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