2010 Wylie Scholar
Bryan Tillman, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Director of Vascular Research
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
“I develop minimally invasive vascular devices in my laboratory. The Rescue Stent is a device to stop bleeding after trauma of the torso and a dual chambered stent is being explored to improve outcomes after major aortic surgery and for targeted delivery of therapeutic drugs”
Dr. Tillman’s laboratory is currently involved in the development of novel endovascular devices. To address lethal vascular injuries on the battlefield and after civilian trauma, Dr. Tillman developed a novel magnetic sensor positioned, retrievable stent device (Rescue Stent) to allow virtually any emergency physician to rapidly stop bleeding until patients can reach proper vascular expertise and imaging. He currently directs a Department of Defense funded research study and recently demonstrated that the Rescue stent offers superior survival to current approaches in a model of lethal hemorrhage.
In addition, motivated by the critical shortage of available organs for transplant, he has also designed and developed a novel dual chambered stent to increase the number and quality of donor organs for transplant by improving organ perfusion during recovery, a project funded by the National Institutes of Health. Most recently his laboratory has been developing large animal models of aortic aneurysms, examined the Rescue Stent to make elective open aortic surgery safer and developed a new platform to facilitate drug delivery to the spinal cord.
“The Wylie Scholar award allowed me to develop my research interests at a critical time of my research career. As a result of this funding, I was able to explore several novel high-risk projects which now have each blossomed into federally funded studies. Our progress to improve the care of patients has generated interest both at the national and international levels.”
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