WEST LAFAYETTE – Researchers at Purdue University are working with the U.S. Army and neurosurgeons at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to create a new “bioactive” coating for stents used o treat brain aneurisms including those caused by head trauma from bomb blasts.

“Stents coated with a bioactive coating might be inserted at the site of an aneurism to help heal the inside lining of the blood vessel” said Jean Paul Allain, an associate professor of nuclear engineering. He spoke to Congress last week during the first Brain Mapping Day about the promise of nanotechnology in treating brain injury and disease.

Purdue researchers are working with Col. Rocco Armonda, Dr. Teodoro Tigno and other neurosurgeons at Walter Reed.