{"id":217233,"date":"2025-07-05T06:07:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T11:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/intelligent-wound-dressing-controls-inflammation"},"modified":"2025-07-05T06:07:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T11:07:59","slug":"intelligent-wound-dressing-controls-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/intelligent-wound-dressing-controls-inflammation","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent wound dressing controls inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/intelligent-wound-dressing-controls-inflammation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chronic wounds are a major medical challenge, burdening health care systems with billions of dollars in costs every year. Pioneer Fellow B\u00f6rte Emiroglu is developing a new product: a selective, sponge-like hydrogel that reduces inflammatory signals and actively promotes healing.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adhm.202400800\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Advanced Healthcare Materials.<\/p>\n<p>Emiroglu\u2019s academic career has taken her from Turkey to Zurich, after a master\u2019s degree, and straight into the interdisciplinary world of biomedical engineering at ETH Zurich. \u201cBack then, I didn\u2019t even know what a hydrogel was,\u201d she recalls, thinking back to the early days of her doctoral research at the Macromolecular Engineering Laboratory under the supervision of Professor Mark Tibbitt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronic wounds are a major medical challenge, burdening health care systems with billions of dollars in costs every year. Pioneer Fellow B\u00f6rte Emiroglu is developing a new product: a selective, sponge-like hydrogel that reduces inflammatory signals and actively promotes healing. The work is published in the journal Advanced Healthcare Materials. Emiroglu\u2019s academic career has taken [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}