Mag Med Biotech High Purity Magnesium Suture

Overview

This product is a high-purity magnesium-based absorbable suture designed for the repair and regeneration of musculoskeletal injuries, offering excellent biocompatibility and mechanical support.

Technical name of innovation

A high-purity magnesium suture, a suture needle with thread, assembly tools, and a manufacturing method thereof.

Research completion

2024

Commercialisation opportunities

Technology licensing or co-development

Problem addressed

Conventional materials often fail to promote bone tissue regeneration, limiting recovery outcomes.

Innovation

Made of high-purity magnesium, it gradually degrades in the body and releases magnesium ions to promote bone regeneration.
Applied in 40 anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction cases; 6-month follow-up shows significantly increased new bone formation in bone tunnels.
Over a decade of research and clinical translation confirms its safety and efficacy for broad orthopedic applications.

Key impact

Promotes bone tissue regeneration and enhances postoperative recovery

Award

Gold Medal at the 2024 Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions
Silver Medal at the 2025 iENA Invention Exhibition in Munich, Germany

Application

Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Reconstruction
Tendon-to-bone interface repair

Patent

China Invention Patent: CN121465658A

Website

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Founded in 1963, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a forward-looking comprehensive research university with a global vision and a mission to combine tradition with modernity, and to bring together China and the West. CUHK teachers and students hail from all around the world. Four Nobel laureates are associated with the university, and it is the only tertiary institution in Hong Kong with recipients of the Nobel Prize, Turing Award, Fields Medal and Veblen Prize sitting as faculty in residence. CUHK graduates are connected worldwide through an extensive alumni network. CUHK undertakes a wide range of research programmes in many subject areas, and strives to provide scope for all academic staff to undertake consultancy and collaborative projects with industry.

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