Innovation Prize 2008 for InnoRa
6 December 2008 Posted in Uncategorized
Senator Harald Wolf and the Secretary of Commerce Ulrich Junghans awarded the Innovation Prize Berlin-Brandenburg 2008. Out of the seven nominees, four were awarded the 10.000 Euro prize. One of our industrial partners, InnoRa GmbH was awarded for the development of “Drug-coated balloon catheters for the treatment of arterial stenoses and occlusions”.
Since January of 2007 the study group Open MRI and InnoRa GmbH have been developing and researching local tumor therapy with a coated balloon catheter, which was now awarded with the Innovation prize. Local chemotherapeutic treatment of arterial stenoses is a new treatment method, which was developed at the Charité. A miniature balloon is coated with drugs and then carefully folded to be introduced with a catheter to the pathologically affected region and then re-inflated. Hereby high drug concentrations can permeate into the diseased tissue with a decreased risk of systematic side-effects.
The prize for experimental radiology for the Charité and InnoRa GmbH was received by Professor DSc Ulrich Spreck, who was accompanied by Melanie Biedermann. The study group open MRI was represented by DSc Jens Rump and Felix Güttler.
The greatest technical hurdle in the local chemotherapeutic treatment with drug-coated balloon catheter, is the exact localization of the catheter in the MRI. This challenge will be the focus of the study group open MRI in future projects in 2009/2010.
- Official Website Innovationspreis Berlin-Brandenburg
- Video: “RBB aktuell” vom 5.12.2008 (Real Player benötigt)
- Video: “Abendschau” vom 5.12.2008 (Real Player benötigt)
- Video: “Brandenburg – Aktuell” vom 5.12.2008 (Real Player benötigt)
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