Spheritech Limited

Face masks currently in use by healthcare professionals in the NHS and in social care were not designed to be specifically antiviral. Even worse, the simple cloth and paper disposable masks often used by the general public offer little protection and may even be reservoirs to catch and retain droplets containing viruses. In these unprecedented times when ...

Blood substitutes are of immense importance in circumstances where immediate blood supply is required but cannot be supplied through traditional blood transfusion (e.g. in trauma units, haemophilia, cases where blood can be contaminated by disease, during transplant surgery, or on the battlefield). This project will explore the technical feasibility of de...

Osteoarthritis (OA) the disease that this project targets, imposes massive burden on society not only in terms of loss of quality of life for the individual, but also in terms of costs – directly to the Health Services for their treatment and indirectly from loss of earnings and impact on their carers: and it is getting worse. Despite this, treatment is o...

Both chronic and burns wounds are instantly recognised by the continuous leaching of exudate from the wound. The key purpose of a dressing for these wounds is the removal of this aqueous seepage and moisture retention by covering with a hydrophilic adsorbent material. Collagen based dressings have proved beneficial in these applications because they encou...

The technology patented by SpheriTech and described in this application is not only novel but provides an inexpensive and efficient means for manufacture of polymeric microspheres. Page 3 of44 The most important objective is to identify a range of polymers and linkage technologies for the three target markets. Identification of specific protocols and tech...