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Parker: NanoTess making waves in power wound market


NanoTess advertising and marketing efficient therapy towards a variety of wounds

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Continual wounds and stress accidents may be fairly painful, and in addition to posing a danger of great an infection and a prolonged restoration course of, too usually a result’s amputation.

Julian Mulia, co-founder and COO of NanoTess, misplaced each mother and father in Mexico to power well being situations. It was an actual motivator for him and co-founder and CEO Megan Leslie to create superior lively therapeutic that will clear up the issues brought on by power wounds, and thereby shorten hospital stays and restore and prolong regular life actions.

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Mulia was accepted as a global scholar on the College of Calgary 14 years in the past, and after a level in chemical engineering went on to earn a masters of engineering in software program engineering.

Leslie additionally attended the college’s Schulich Faculty of Engineering to earn her bachelor of science diploma in mechanical engineering, after which a bachelor of commerce in finance on the Haskayne Faculty of Enterprise.

Each frolicked within the power enterprise and a few years at Deloitte — Mulia in technique and operations, and Leslie in workforce transformation.

They launched NanoTess in 2020 as a nanomaterial science firm with a imaginative and prescient to supply game-changing catalytic options that will considerably improve international well being outcomes. With a real need to assist individuals affected by well being points, NanoTess was fashioned as a social enterprise and in solely three years has been capable of manufacture and market its first catalytic materials that’s poised to disrupt the power and acute-care wound market.

NanoSALV Catalytic is a simple to use nanotechnology-enabled matrix gel designed for the administration and therapy of wounds.

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In depth and thorough trials in a provincewide analysis by Alberta Well being Companies have been performed throughout a number of health-care settings, together with specialised wound clinics, long-term care, seniors residing centres and a rehabilitation hospital that every had an elevated prevalence of many wound sorts — together with dermatological situations, power and acute.

Tremendous encouraging outcomes confirmed considerably improved therapeutic outcomes and wound development. The injuries within the challenge have been current for a mean of 1.69 years — or 88 weeks. The common share space discount utilizing NanoSALV was 56.6 per cent, the place one-third of the injuries healed greater than 80 per cent in 4 weeks.

The know-how has already gained awards — the CAN Well being Community 2023 Innovation Award, the A100’s One to Watch, and Begin Alberta’s Most Promising Startup Entrepreneur. It’s acknowledged as a therapeutic optimizer used to extend the velocity of therapeutic wounds, from small pores and skin tears to Stage 4 power wounds.

And it’s straightforward to use to a wide range of wounds, from early onset and surgical wounds to power wounds and a wide range of dermatological challenges.

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NanoTess is a income producing group however particular aims serve its major objective.

The founders have a deep need to cut back the necessity for extended wound therapy, and in so doing relieve affected person stress whereas giving health-care suppliers an extra instrument to enhance their wound administration practises. And so they have labored exhausting to make sure the medical know-how is inexpensive, accessible to all and straightforward to use for at-home use.

The corporate has “go away nobody behind” initiatives which can be serving to many underserved communities. Mulia notes that each 20 seconds, somebody on this planet has a leg amputated — however says it’s a silent pandemic wound drawback right here in Calgary, the place a slightly astounding determine of 5 individuals per week lose a limb on account of diabetic ulcers. Diabetes is on the rise in Canada, extra so inside Indigenous, immigrant and seniors’ communities; NanoTess is working with the Siksika Nation to assist battle diabetic ulcers and likewise with low-income Calgary seniors.

Because of an oversubscribed funding spherical and provincial, federal and army awards, the laboratory and manufacturing facility in Calgary is promoting its flagship product NanoSALV Catalytic throughout Canada, and worldwide advertising and marketing will start subsequent yr.

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Notes:

So unhappy to listen to the information that Kai Mortensen — the place the identify Nice Dane should have come from — died just lately in Mexico. A profitable Calgary retailer for a few years at Interiors by Kai Mortensen on eleventh Avenue S.W., he was additionally a powerful pillar of our Danish group. Founder and president of the Danish Businessmen’s Affiliation and eager ambassador of the Danish Canadian Membership, he was additionally a long-serving honorary consul of Denmark. And a person who may fill a room together with his smile.

David Parker seems usually within the Herald. Learn his columns on-line at calgaryherald.com/enterprise. He may be reached at 403-830-4622 or by e mail at information@davidparker.ca

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