30.10.2024 Life Science Technologies 4 million for surface innovations in medicine

To improve healthcare, four interdisciplinary teams are researching how the surfaces of bone, hearing and wound implants can be optimized and how nanoparticles made of gold can be used in cancer therapy. The teams at the universities in Aalen, Offenburg, Reutlingen and Trier will each receive one million euros from the Carl Zeiss Foundation. For example, a biocompatible eardrum lens should almost completely restore hearing, a biomimetic metal should not only serve as a replacement material in the event of bone loss, but also allow the bone to grow back and an implant should automatically adapt to the various phases of wound healing. In cancer therapy, new types of nanoparticles made of gold are being researched that amplify the radiation in the tumor tissue and selectively release the chemotherapeutic agent in the tumor.

"At the interface of medicine and technology, new technologies can drive forward personalized medicine and make healthcare sustainable and efficient," says Dr Felix Streiter, Managing Director of the Carl Zeiss Foundation, with conviction.

The foundation has now approved around 4 million euros for this purpose as part of the "Surfaces" call for proposals at universities of applied sciences. Four projects were selected by a committee of experts in a competitive process.

Further information on the individual research projects can be found in our project overview for the "Surfaces" call on our website.