A whole grid of burn wounds at once, instead of one by one
Pyra
A pre-clinical device for creating consistent burn wounds in ex vivo skin tissue, for wound healing research.
LOG · WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT DOES
A pre-clinical device for wound healing research that burns a whole grid of ex vivo skin grafts at once, the same way every time.
WHY
Freelance work with a lab doing burn wound research. They used to manually create burn wounds on skin grafts 1 by 1, which was not reproducible, and they wanted something faster and more consistent across all grafts, which are usually in a 6x4 or 3x4 grid.
WHAT I WORKED ON
It's a purely mechanical device: I designed and presented the whole thing, built in Inventor and 3D printed.
WHAT CAME OF IT
It was published in Annals of 3D Printed Medicine in 2024, with me as first author.
- OBJECT
- M16
- YEAR
- 2023
- CONTEXT
- Freelance
- CATEGORY
- work
- TYPE
- hardware
- STATE
- out in the world
- TOPICS
PLATES · 8
PLATE IThe assembled tool
PLATE IIThe assembly drawing
PLATE IIIThe rod base: one rod for each graft
PLATE IVThe plate base
PLATE VRod base drawing
PLATE VIPlate base drawing
PLATE VIILaying out the 3 by 4 grid
PLATE VIIIAn early version
MORE WORK HARDWARE
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