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Ushering in a new era of suture-free tissue reconstruction for better healing
MIT spinout Tissium offers surgeons a new solution for suture-free nerve repair. The company’s flexible, biocompatible polymers conform to surrounding tissues, attaching to them in order to repair torn tissue after being activated using blue light.
“Our goal is to make this technology the new standard in fixation,” says Tissium co-founder Maria Pereira, who began working with polymers as a PhD student through the MIT Portugal Program. In June, Tissium reached a major milestone when it received marketing authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for its non-traumatic, sutureless solution to repair peripheral nerves. Years before he co-founded Tissium, Jeff Karp was a postdoc in the lab of MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer, where he worked to develop elastic materials that were biodegradable and photocurable for a range of clinical applications.
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