Research collaboration
RESTORE Project
Askel participates in the €5.5M EU funded RESTORE research project together with eight other European partners. In this ambitious project we aim for introducing groundbreakingly new ways of treating damaged cartilage using COPLA® technology as a platform. Alongside the high scientific aspirations, we gather data important for fulfilling the regulatory requirements for COPLA® technology for human use.
To answer the clinical and societal challenge of knee cartilage defects, RESTORE will develop smart and functional 3D-matrices by combining COPLA® with nanocarriers and stimuli-responsive nanobiomaterials to modulate inflammatory, cartilage degradation, and infection threats. These functional additives will be remotely stimulated, and their regeneration activity monitored with a non-invasive wearable and wireless device. The RESTORE project gives Askel a lot of new data about COPLA® which is helping us to get the authorization for human use, as well as wide potential of multidisciplinary research towards enhancing the repair capability of COPLA®.