{"id":60013,"date":"2009-12-02T14:14:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T19:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologytransfertactics.com\/content\/?p=5414"},"modified":"2009-12-02T14:14:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T19:14:18","slug":"aberdeen-university-licenses-synthetic-bone-technologies-to-apatech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/60013","title":{"rendered":"Aberdeen University licenses synthetic bone technologies to ApaTech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland&#8217;s Aberdeen University has signed a license agreement with ApaTech, a global orthobiologics company, for three technologies in the field of synthetic bone. ApaTech plans to refine and commercialize the early-stage technologies into products for orthopaedic, spinal, and dental surgical procedures to repair and regenerate damaged bone. The agreement allows the company to exploit technologies developed by Iain Gibson, PhD, advanced research fellow, and colleagues in Aberdeen&#8217;s department of chemistry and School of Medical Sciences. The technologies focus on three opportunities to improve synthetic bone grafting materials:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>incorporating biologically active silicon and other ionic species into orthopaedic graft materials to enhance bone repair;<\/li>\n<li>enabling improved MRI imaging of synthetic bone graft materials following surgical implantation to facilitate monitoring during healing; and\n<\/li>\n<li>increasing understanding of how biomaterials can enhance bone regeneration. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ApaTech already develops and manufactures Actifuse, a synthetic silicate bone graft material for orthopaedic, spinal, dental, and craniomaxillofacial applications that mimics the body&#8217;s natural bony structure and accelerates the growth of high quality bone. Gibson&#8217;s synthetic materials could be used to repair and regenerate bone in patients requiring spinal surgery and to treat osteoporosis or bone injuries from accidents or sports. ApaTech hopes to move the technology into the clinic in two to four years.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/bulletin.sciencebusiness.net\/ebulletins\/showissue.php3?page=\/548\/4422\/15967\" >Science Business<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agcc.co.uk\/new-synthetic-bone-closer-to-market\/\" >Aberdeen Grampian Chamber of Commerce<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland&#8217;s Aberdeen University has signed a license agreement with ApaTech, a global orthobiologics company, for three technologies in the field of synthetic bone. ApaTech plans to refine and commercialize the early-stage technologies into products for orthopaedic, spinal, and dental surgical procedures to repair and regenerate damaged bone. The agreement allows the company to exploit technologies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}