Videos: DynaMesh®-PRP soft & DynaMesh®-PRP visible – Pectopexy
[Stifterverband is a joint initiative started by companies and foundations – the only one in Germany to be devoted entirely to consulting, networking and promoting improvements in the fields of education, science and innovation.]
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« The Innovations Award Aachen 2003 went to the company FEG Textiltechnik this year. By that an enterprise from the textile line of business was awarded the first time. Most of the enterprises from that line of business had to close their gates during the last fifty years. FEG Textiltechnik however is a proof that know-how from Aachen is still worldclass and that the structural change also in this line of business was carried out by innovations »
f.l.t.r.: C. Meulenbergh (District Administrator County of Aachen), S. Schneemelcher and Dr. B. Obolenski (Managing Directors FEG Textiltechnik mbH), Dr. J. Linden (Mayor City of Aachen)
By an internationally filled jury of experts the project “Visualisation of textile implants in MRI by inclusion of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles” was chosen and awarded within the innovation contest of medical technology 2007 arranged by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
In the following three years and in cooperation with the University Hospital Aachen and the Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Technology, FEG developed a mesh implant allows the visualisation under MRI. This contributed to improved patient surveillance.