Grant: Collaborative Health Research Projects (NSERC partnered)

Each year 3 million stents are implanted worldwide for a variety of applications, with the main use to keep open blood vessels that become narrowed or blocked. The stent implantation, however, often leads to a major complication known as in-stent restenosis which means re-blockage of blood flow at the stented site. The objective of the proposed research is to develop revolutionary active stent systems that enable thermal therapy of stent-implanted blood vessels for the prevention of restenosis. The successful research will bring a breakthrough in the therapeutic approach of circumventing the restenosis problem in a non-invasive manner, contributing to improving the quality of life of patients who require stents.