The story behind Gecko Biomedical’s biocompatible sealant starts in the summer of 2009, when Boston Children’s Hospital‘s chief of cardiac surgery reached out to Jeffrey Karp about a problem he was experiencing in the operating room.
Dr. Pedro del Nido told Karp, a professor of medicine at Harvard and the director of the Laboratory for Accelerated Medical Innovation at nearby Brigham & Women’s Hospital, that he was operating on kids who had holes in between the chambers of their heart. He needed a way to patch up these hearts with a material that would grow with his patients – and he needed Karp’s help to do it.
Karp and his lab decided that they would try to develop a material that could immediately attach to seal a hole and would later degrade, leaving behind the child’s own tissue.
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