Imagine a house with all the furniture and people taken out — you're left with an empty shell that is easier to populate than just building a house from scratch, in the same way, decellularized dermis provides a scaffold that the body can try to populate with its own cells. The good thing about decellularized dermis is that it has a structure and composition that the human body is already used to — the body responds more favorably to what it is used to than what it isn't.

Ardeshir Bayat

Dr Ardeshir Bayat is a surgeon scientist currently based at the Institute of Inflammation and Repair at the University of Manchester. He leads a translational research group with an international reputation in wound healing and bioengineering. He has made an impact with bridging innovative science and technology from bench to bedside by introducing topicals for scars, skin substitutes for treating chronic wounds, electrical stimulation for acute wounds and novel biomimetic surfaces for implants. He has many academic and industrial collaborators and is often an invited speaker who advises national/international health organizations, global health technology consultancies, academia and industry.

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