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SRINAGAR
A Kashmiri student was adjudged one of the winners for a Tissue Engineering Program that was held in Sydney University in Australia.
Sheikh Rakib, son of Sheikh Abdul Hamid from Sonawar locality of Srinagar city has figured among best students in the Sydney University List.
“A streamlined mental health platform to support students and a revolutionary approach to heart valve transplants have won two teams of students funding in the inaugural Innovation Week Student Challenge,” a press release from the University read.
In the Tissue engineering for heart valves the ‘Evalve’, developed by biomedical engineering and commerce student Ben Ferguson and fellow biomedical engineering students Benjamin Lindsay, Sheikh Rakib and Kevin Wong, uses stem cells and high-tech ‘scaffolding’ to effectively regenerate heart valves with tissue.
It would eliminate the need for invasive artificial prosthetics or non-permanent transplants from pigs, which are the only current options for patients.
The valve is bio-resorb-able – it can grow and remodel itself and be absorbed into the body. This means it could be used for young babies with valve birth defects as well as older patients.
The ‘Tissue Mk II’ group’s vision is to save and prolong lives and to make Australia the world leader of the tissue engineering industry.
As the winners of the MVP prize for best start-up business pitch, the team won $10,000 in grant funding, mentoring and services from INCUBATE, the University’s start-up accelerator and entrepreneur program.
