13 September 2022

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Matregenix wins grant for dental barrier membrane

Katherine E. Pfaff

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Technology and nanofiber materials company, Matregenix Inc., has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research. The funding will be used to create a dental barrier membrane to be used for guided bone regeneration. 

Matregenix is located at incubator and nonprofit, University Lab Partners, in Irvine, California. 

"Our new approach will address the limitations of current products by eliminating the need for animal-based materials while introducing a new biomaterial to benefit the areas of soft tissue repair applications,” said Dr. Sherif Soliman, founder and chief executive officer of Matregenix. “This award will help us validate the clinical significance of our innovative membrane to provide a more suitable armamentarium for oral and craniomaxillofacial bone regeneration compared to the gold standard collagen membrane.”

Guided bone regeneration is used for treatment of diseases and defects of bone. GBR creates a space for bone to grow without connective tissue in the area. The research will also be conducted with University of Michigan School of Dentistry’s professor Marco Bottino.  

"This project is built on the extensive published and preliminary data that my lab has generated in collaboration with Matregenix over the past 3 years, and I strongly believe that successful completion of this project is the critical step to translating the next-generation of barrier membranes for guided bone regeneration applications," said Bottino.

Source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-institute-of-health-nih-awards-matregenix-a-phase-1-sbir-grant-to-develop-a-new-dental-barrier-membrane-for-guided-bone-regeneration-301616879.html