University of Southern Denmark

Overview:
The University of Southern Denmark welcomed the first students onto the campus in Odense in September 1966, and things have been developing by leaps and bounds ever since. SDU now have five faculties with more than 32,000 students, almost 20% of whom are from abroad, and more than 4,000 employees distributed across our main campus in Odense and regional campuses in Slagelse, Kolding, Esbjerg and Sønderborg.
SDU conducts world-class research and are one of the top fifty young universities in the world. Every day more than 2,000 researchers and 32,000 students build on the university’s reputation as a centre of academic excellence.
Research:
The University of Southern Denmark consists of five faculties:
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<li>Faculty of Engineering</li>
<li>Faculty of Health Sciences</li>
<li>Faculty of Science</li>
<li>Faculty of Business and Social Sciences</li>
<li>Faculty of Humanities</li>
</ul>
Every faculty consists of several departments, where the departments have a noticeable academic and economic independence and responsibility. Together departments and centres cover a wide range of research fields and educational opportunities.
Industry Partnerships:
SDU works purposefully to create dialogue between the university’s researchers and the surrounding society. To promote and make communication and knowledge exchange visible, faculties cooperate with various external parties. These activities are organised in centres. The centres serve to promote special purposes in research, education or knowledge exchange.
SDU RIO (SDU Research &amp; Innovation Organisation) supports collaboration between research, education, the business community and the public sector.

<h1 id="technology-overview">Technology Overview</h1>
This surgical implant coating stimulates blood vessel formation locally and improves bone tissues formation in efforts to heal critical size bone defects. This technology offers a highly effective combination and ratio of cells/growth factors/biomaterials/release method in a simple and clinically useful delivery format.
Results from a pilot study in sheep models show bone formation is regained in a critical size defect. Practically, this demonstrates regeneration of bone tissue on demand, and can enhance ingrowth of new bone and stabilization of inserted implants. The initial results show a clinical advantage over the best current surgical option, allograft bone implants. The medical coating composition is currently being optimized and target clinical applications are being investigated.
<img src="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/assets.in-part.com/figures/6O3nQBLOQ6GYbYkfLECF_bone1.png" alt="Figure 1: microCT images of bone stimulation and healing of critical size defects &lt;12 weeks" />
<img src="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/assets.in-part.com/figures/waXCyu2cSLqLlzGeMw10_bone2.png" alt="Figure 2: BV/TV statistics from allograft and the optimal formulation of the novel coating" />
<img src="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/assets.in-part.com/figures/vySsWKQ3TQCgzdinreAn_bone3.png" alt="Figure 3" />
<h3 id="state-of-development">State of Development</h3>
Planning further animal testing and requirements before application for human trials.