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NTU's Superior Stent Design Concept Awarded 2014 Red Dot Award

圖說:The rhombus-shaped depot stent greatly increases the drug capacity and enhances the service life over conventional stents.
The rhombus-shaped depot stent greatly increases the drug capacity and enhances the service life over conventional stents.

A team from National Taiwan University was awarded the 2014 Red Dot Design Concept Award on Sept. 26 for its design of a vascular stent that greatly enhances the efficacy of drug distribution. The Superior Stent emerged from a total of 4,791 entries from 63 countries in this year’s competition, exemplifying NTU’s achievements in both academic research as well as practical development.

The Superior Stent is the world’s first design concept that features a rhombus-shaped depot stent. Also featuring an extended clinical lifespan compared to previous models, the unique shape also creates a larger storage capacity that allows the stent to become a possible vehicle for carrying drugs and cells. Last year, the design was awarded the Ministry of Economic Affairs' Light Metal Award. The addition of the internationally recognized Red Dot Award also serves as validation of the innovative concept's potential.

The Superior Stent was designed by graduate students NTU's Huang Bor-Hann (黃柏翰), Li Dian-Ru (李典儒), and Lin Cheng-Han (林承翰). The team is led by Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Hao-Ming Hsiao (蕭浩明), whose Advanced Medical Device Laboratory is dedicated to the research as well as practical development of advanced medical equipment implanted into the human body, such as vascular stents, cardiac catheterization, drug carrier, and heart valves. The Superior Stent was also made possible with the support of Metal Industries Research and Development Centre as well as the NTU Department of Mechanical Engineering.

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