The University of Edinburgh has agreed a contract to market a technology which can clean surgical instruments contaminated by CJD, and save the health industry thousands of pounds.
The University of Edinburgh’s commercialisation arm, Edinburgh Research and Innovation (ERI), and US equipment supplier Plasma Etch, have agreed to collaborate in licensing the process, known as Midas, and the equipment used to implement it.
ERI now intends to offer licences directly to companies which supply sterilised medical cleaning and sterilisation equipment. The deal follows a recent warning from Professor James Ironside, of the National CJD Surveillance Unit at the University of Edinburgh, of the risks of spreading the disease via surgical instruments.
