HepaWash and II. Medical Department, University Hospital rechts der Isar awarded € 425,000 grant from the Bayerische forschungsstiftung (BFS) for a € 0.9 Mio collaborative Preclinical study on Acute liver Failure

Hepa Wash GmbH (Hepa Wash), a medical device company developing an innovative liver support device announced today that it has received a € 425,000 grant from the Bayerische Forschungsstiftung (BFS) to test the safety and efficacy of its laboratory prototype in a preclinical animal model for acute liver failure in collaboration with the II. Medical Department, University Hospital Rechts der Isar.
The grant will be used to develop an improved animal model for acute liver failure in pigs that resembles much more the clinical situation of acute liver failure in humans than currently available models. This new model will allow to analyzing and evaluating the safety and efficacy of the Hepa Wash® treatment on the function of vital organs during acute liver failure, results that will be very important for the further development and optimization of the Hepa Wash® device. In addition, these data will also be very helpful to gain a better insight into the underlying pathology of acute liver failure, a disease that is still only partially understood.