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BIRAC Success Stories | 2016 Healthline

Key Highlights

* Launched in 2014.
Breakthrough * About 4000 units sold.
* Targeted customers: Advanced wound
• Developed “Fibroheal” a silk based care; Hospital with wound therapy and
dressing for burn wounds. plastic surgery.
• Fibroheal utilizes the “Epidermal * Reduction in patient trauma and
Growth Factor” kind of activity of recovery time.
silk protein to create a bio-modified * Best Upcoming Innovator Award by
active wound dressing environment. FKCCI, Bengaluru in 2014.
Ensures 40-45% faster healing than * Employment to ~15 technical
traditional method of dressing. professionals.
• Dressing comes in four standard sizes
and can also be made to order. This is
especially useful when treating burn
victims, skin grafts, donor sites and
caesarean sections.

BIRAC’s Support

The project was supported by BIRAC
in two phases under its SBIRI scheme.
First for for proof-of- concept and later
for scale up and validation studies.

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