Quick-Med’s Novel Wound Dressing Receives
Recognition from the Wound Healing Society
Gainesville, Florida – May 15, 2008 – Quick-Med Technologies, Inc. is pleased to
announce that the Wound Healing Society has recognized the innovative work of a team
of its scientists with the Society’s prestigious Blue Ribbon Award. The award, which was
presented at the recent Symposium on Advanced Wound Care and Wound Healing
Society’s 21st Annual Meeting, recognized the outstanding abstract entitled: “Absorbent
Microbicidal Wound Dressing Material with Protease Inhibition Properties.” The
abstract was sponsored by Quick-Med Technologies and the University of Florida at
Gainesville.
The Wound Healing Society offers the Blue Ribbon Industrial Research & Development
Award to recognize the best product-oriented research performed by research and
development scientists within the corporate world. This year, a total of 11 blue ribbons
were awarded including 2 to teams from Quick-Med Technologies. Other participants at
the SAWC/WHS event were prominent companies such as Johnson & Johnson Wound
Management, 3M Healthcare, Kinetic Concepts, Inc., and Healthpoint, Ltd., as well as
leading educational institutions such as the Harvard Medical School, Stanford University,
and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
“This marks the third blue ribbon received by the QMT Research Center in the past three
years, and it represents recognition by our peers of the quality of work done by our
research team”, said Dr. Gerald Olderman, Vice President of Research & Development
for Quick-Med Technologies. “This work will ultimately form the basis of the
development of unique wound dressing products that are targeted at reduced risk of
infections and speedier healing.
The project team is lead by Bernd Liesenfeld1 and includes Gregory Schultz1,2, John
Aseke2, Olajompo Moloye2, William Toreki1, Roy Carr1, David Moore1, and Gerald
Olderman1. (1Quick-Med Technologies; Inc.; 2University of Florida)
Experimental results demonstrate the capacity of a NIMBUS® wound dressing to not only
deliver the strong antimicrobial efficacy but also to preferentially ionically bind proteases
and sequester them within the wound dressing. This strategy permits the control of
microbes and the suppression of protease activity without leaching any material into the
wound bed, thus eliminating the associated interference with the wound-healing process.
The poster in its entirety can be accessed by clicking here.
About the Wound Healing Society
The Wound Healing Society is a non-profit organization composed of clinical and basic
scientists. The Society provides a forum for interaction among scientists, physicians,
licensed practitioners, industrial representatives and government agencies. Founded in
1990, the Society is recognized among professionals and government agencies as the
leading scientific organization focused in this area of wound healing. The Society
publishes the leading journal in this area, Wound Repair and Regeneration.
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