Spun out of the Unversity of Alabama Birmingham and now collaborating with the Mayo Clinic, Endomimetics is organized around creating bionanomatrix coatings for medical implants with the objective of improving the acceptance of those implants and devices by the human body. In many medical settings and procedures, doctors may employ devices in their patients: Stents to help with heart disease; stents and blood flow diverters to help with brain aneurysms; Fistula implantation for dialysis patients Intranasal implants for chronic sinusitis sufferers. It is not uncommon for these various implants to fail in anyof various ways necessitating subsequent medical intervention. Anchored in all natural, free of solvents or synthetic material, the Endomimtic effort is to offer solutions using a BioNanomatrix developed by the firm that can be used to coat these devices and mimic human tissue. Successfully employed, this coating would minimize the need for additional surgeries, improve the longevity of the device and reduce complications associated with having foreign items implanted in the body.
