Episode 5: Talking to Dr Lisa Fortuin about Bone Glue! A degradable polymer based bone fracture adhesive that can replace metal plates and screws in t...

21/09/2020 35 min
Episode 5: Talking to Dr Lisa Fortuin about Bone Glue! A degradable polymer based bone fracture adhesive that can replace metal plates and screws in t...

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Episode Synopsis

Today we are talking to Dr Lisa Fortuin, a postdoctoral researcher at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. She did her PhD at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, where she used biodegradable polymers to develop prodrugs for targeted drug delivery. She is currently developing part of the layered system that forms the degradable polymer based bone fracture adhesive, which surgeons will eventually be able to use instead of metal plates and screws for bone fracture treatments!

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