By Industry News
Miami, FL – August 17, 2020 – Amniox Medical, Inc. (Amniox), a TissueTech, Inc. company involved in the research of the clinical application of human birth tissue-based products, announced today that Yun Guan, MD, PhD, professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, and professor of neurological surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been awarded a 5-year R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a study titled “Birth Tissue Products for Non-opioid Treatment of Post-surgical Pain.” Dr. Guan and his team will study the efficacy and molecular mechanism, thereby human birth tissue promotes wound healing and suppresses pain after surgical procedures. TissueTech will serve as a sub-contractor on the project.