Newrotex is developing silk nerve repair devices – a truly practical, sustainable and effective treatment for large gap nerve injuries in hospitals. This exciting new technology, using silk from moths and spiders, will greatly improve patient outcomes and care and significantly increase the number of patients who can now hope to have their sensation and function restored are suffering injuries from trauma, or as a side effect from cancer surgery.

Peripheral nerve injuries have a devastating impact on patients world-wide. The research behind Newrotex's products demonstrates with robust clinical testing the incredible regenerative properties of silk within the nervous system.

Newrotex is an Oxford-based SME that has developed an off-the-shelf silk-based conduit for the repair of peripheral nerve injuries. The company is supported by grants grom UKRI and NiHR and are currently completing pre-clinical studies to bring the technology to patients. Its CEO and co-founder, Dr Alex Woods, is a trauma orthopaedic surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals and holds a D.Phil in Zoology and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from Oxford University.

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