Improving body implants could save health care system millions

Published March 19, 2019 This content is archived.

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WBFO-FM reported on Buffalo startup Garwood Medical Devices, which is working with UB’s Buffalo Institute for Genomics and Data Analytics and biomedical researchers to bring to market a medical devices which aims to reduce joint replacement infections through electrical stimulation technology.

The seed for the innovation — called Biofilm Disruption Device™ (BDD™) — was born in the laboratory of Mark Ehrensberger, PhD, associate professor in UB’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, a joint program of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.

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