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SCTIMST unveils wound dressing of animal origin

January 22, 2026

Published - January 22, 2026 08:16 pm IST - Thiruvananthapuram The Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) notched up one more product to its long line of indigenously developed medical devices on Thursday when it unveiled its latest, a wound care dressing named CholeDerm, fabricated from the gall bladder (cholecyst) of farm animals. The Institute claimed that it was the world ‘s first tissue graft scaffold of animal origin for accelerated wound healing. The technology, developed by a team led by T. V.

SCTIMST unveils wound dressing of animal origin

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Anilkumar, Scientist G, at the Division of Experimental Pathology at SCTIMST’s Biomedical Technology wing, had been transferred to Alicorn Medical Private Limited, a start-up biopharmaceutical company in TIMED (technology incubation facility of SCTIMST) in 2017.
The company registered the product as ‘CholeDerm R’ and established its commercial production in Kerala.
In 2023, the Central Drug Standards Control Organisation approved CholeDerm R as a Class D medical device.
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Anilkumar and team had been conducting active research for fabricating medical devices from extracellular matrices of organs and tissue of farm animals since 2008.

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