Lexington Local Awarded Patent for Work with Collagen Fibrillar Construction

Dr. Jeffrey W. Ruberti, Bioengineering professor at Northeastern University, was recently awarded a patent for developing methods and compositions for organizing collagen into fibrillar networks.

The patent is part of a series of patents which take advantage of Professor Ruberti’s theory that the structural materials from which we are made are self-organizing and self-optimizing. The patent will enable Dr. Ruberti and his team to produce connective tissue with a high degree of similarity to native tissue. This is particularly enabling for producing ligaments, tendons, corneas, and possibly cartilage & bone.

A Lexington local, this is Dr. Ruberti’s thirteenth patent to be allowed by the US patent office. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University and is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). His research is funded by the National Institutes of Health (corneal tissue engineering) and by the National Science Foundation (bone tissue engineering).

For the full announcement, click here.