Abstract: A polymer comprising a conducting or semiconducting segment coupled to a polymer segment having an insulating polymer backbone, the polymer further comprising a RAFT functional group coupled to the polymer segment, wherein there is no RAFT functional group in between the conducting or semiconducting segment and the polymer segment.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 28, 2013
Date of Patent:
March 31, 2015
Assignee:
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Institute Organisation
Inventors:
Ming Chen, Graeme Moad, Ezio Rizzardo, Richard Alexander Evans, Matthias Haeussler
Abstract: Methods for treating diseased or damaged tissue in a subject are disclosed, involving administering to said subject at a site wherein diseased or damaged tissue occurs, cells of a type(s) normally found in healthy tissue corresponding to the diseased or damaged tissue, and/or suitable progenitor cells thereof, in association with bioresorbable beads or particles and optionally a gel and/or gel-forming substance. Where the cells an/or suitable progenitor cells thereof are chondrocytes, embryonic stem cells and/or bone marrow stromal cells, the methods of the invention are suitable for treating, for example, articular cartilage degeneration associated with primary osteoarthritis.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 13, 2008
Publication date:
April 16, 2009
Applicants:
COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Inventors:
Jerome Anthony Werkmeister, Wei-Bor Tsai, John Alan Maurice Ramshaw, Helmut Werner Thissen, Ken-Yuan Chang