The invention of a medical patent using Bioarchitecture was achieved by Cypriot students at Kings College in London, including the third-year student of molecular genetics, Kyriakos Attouni from Sotira, who intends to pursue his postgraduate studies.
Kyriakos, together with his team, recently participated in iGem (International Genetically Engineered Machine) 2020, the largest synthetic biology competition in the world, where they managed to stand out by receiving the Gold Medal and the award for best treatment of the year.
He spoke exclusively to Famagusta.News describing their success but also their innovative invention.
The team, in which he participated as a student leader and also the Cypriot student Stefani Avraamidi, is in the process of laboratory tests to promote treatment that gives hope to patients who are injured in the spine and are at risk of disability.
Watch Sunday's interview on Famagusta.News here:
Specifically, their award-winning work, "Renervate" focuses on improving the treatment for spinal cord injury by designing and modeling a scaffold based on three-dimensional polycaprolactone biographies, which contains a new bioadhesive coating based on protein. The second phase will consist of the wet laboratory validation and formation of the scaffold and the protein polymer.
The aim of this project is to describe a holistic, less invasive treatment that reduces the need for surgery. In addition to the scientific element of their work, they also developed Human Practices and a Scientific Communication Plan.
The report in the Sections in the Events of Sigma:
In addition, despite the fact that the whole team are undergraduate students, they competed in the graduate category for all the awards.
There is already great interest from companies for the implementation of the therapeutic patent, while the team has also posted a website of contributions to finance its invention.
The "Renervate" team has also posted an online fundraiser for the collection of contributions to complete the patent which can be found here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/renervate?
More information about the project here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/students-from-faculty-of-life-sciences-medicine-win-big-in-igem-2020-competition
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