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The bacteria resistant materials were discovered in 2012 by scientists in the Schools of Pharmacy and Life Sciences - they were discovered by 
identifying next generation biomaterials for use in medical devices that prevent bacterial attachment and hence avoid medical device-associated infections.  The go-ahead has now been given for human trials to take place in hospitals with the CE marked urinary catheters developed by .

 Professor Morgan Alexander

Morgan Alexander, Professor of Biomedical Surfaces, who led the team funded by a Wellcome Trust Translation Award that made the initial discovery said: "This has gone all the way from the discovery of a new class of materials that no one could have predicted all the way to clinical trials and that’s a massive achievement.

"This is only the second medical product to ever come out of this type of high throughput materials discovery that I am aware of and although the new CE mark is for urinary catheters only we have had a lot of interest from companies who manufacture other medical devices. This is an exciting time."

Paul Williams, Professor of Molecular Microbiology in the School of Life Sciences said: “In the context of antimicrobial resistance these materials could be a major breakthrough. Millions of urinary catheters are used every day around the world and anybody who has a catheter for longer than a week is likely to get an infection.”

More information can be found here.

Coated catheter