WORCESTER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VitaThreads LLC today reported that the National Institute of General Medical Sciences1 has awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Grant for the study of the VitaSuture Wound Management Systems (VWMS). VitaThreads will collaborate with Kevin Smith, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill. The objective of the Phase I Grant, entitled, "Fibrin Sutures for Non-scarring Wound Closure" will be to optimize the performance characteristics of VWMS. Dr. Smith commented, Im excited to collaborate with VitaThreads as part of this SBIR Phase I Grant award. Facial suture technology has not appreciably advanced over the past many years and I believe that devices which enable rapid, scar-free healing offer the best clinical option for patients undergoing facial wound repair for aesthetic procedures. The data I have seen from VitaThreads VWMS technology suggests an opportunity to achieve this objective. I look forward to working with VitaThreads to further develop VWMS and seeing this device enter the clinic. VitaThreads previously reported that the company had met the primary endpoint of incision closure and secondary histological endpoints in pre-clinical in-vivo animal studies. VWMS demonstrated successful … Continue reading →