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Without proper medical invention, injuries sustained from traffic collisions, serious workplace accidents or weapons may result in fatal hemorrhaging. UCF researchers aim to prevent such bleeding in potentially deadly situations with a new hemostatic spongelike bandage with antimicrobial efficacy that they recently developed and detailed in a newly published study in the journal Biomaterials Science.
Kausik Mukhopadhyay, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at teamed with Melanie Coathup, a UCF College of Medicine professor and director of the Biionix Cluster at UCF. She works alongside material scientists and mechanical engineers with the goal of creating new medical technologies and therapies.
“The research is significant, because at the moment, there are no effective treatments available to treat people with these conditions, and new strategies are really needed,” Dr. Coathup said. “This means that teaming up with Dr. Mukhopadhyay to investigate a novel antibacterial sponge that could in the future provide life-saving treatment following major traumatic injury, was an absolute pleasure and right up my street.”
To learn more about the research partnership, visit https://www.ucf.edu/news/life-saving-spongelike-bandage-developed-by-ucf-researchers-rapidly-stops-hemorrhaging-and-mitigates-risk-of-infection/
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