The Commonwealth of Virginia’s largest university, enrollment-wise, has a new feather in its cap, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch in this article by Jeffrey Kelley:
WoundStat has been approved for use on humans and commercial sale by the Food and Drug Administration. It looks like a cross between flour and cat litter can be shoved into wounds to quickly stop hemorrhaging.
WoundStat was developed by three researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University.
“This is a very big deal for us,” said Ivelina S. Metcheva, director of VCU’s Office of Technology Transfer, which works to commercialize the school’s research. Metcheva said WoundStat has the largest market potential ever developed out of VCU.
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