Sensor helps healing wounds

摘要

Wounds are not only unpleasant for those that have them but also costly to treat, with the NHS spending £4.5-5.1 bn each year to manage them.Now, with EPSR-funding, Dr Michael Crichton, a biomedical engineer at Heriot-Watt University and Dr Jenna Cash, a specialist in wound healing immunology from the University of Edinburgh, are working on a two-year project to better understand wounds and reverse the cost of treating them.