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Date: 23 May 2013
Time: 22:17
Burns research
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham's (QEHB) Burns Centre is one of the country's leading facilities for treating and researching burns. The hospital is the regional burns centre, receiving the most serious burns cases from across the West Midlands.
The hospital also works closely with Birmingham Children's Hospital, providing all of its paediatric burns services.
QEHB has a burns high-dependency unit, which can be used to maintain high humidity and temperatures for seriously burned patients
The centre is at the heart of the new Healing Foundation UK Centre for Burns Research, based at the QEHB and involving Birmingham Children's Hospital, the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, the University of Birmingham, The Royal Free Hospital Hampstead and Unversity College London (UCL).
This research centre is looking at taking burns treatment and rehabilitation to a new level, including the use of nanotechnology to create a polymer-based skin substitute. Work on this concept is still at the laboratory stage, and involves world-renowned nanotechnologist Professor Alex Seifalian at UCL.
Under the leadership of Mr Naiem Moiemen, the centre is active in a range of research areas, including the development of new polymer-based skin replacements, face and hand transplantation, and trailing new drugs to neutralise chemical burns.
