Marcela Munzarová is a member of many research teams and has co-authored dozens of patents and utility models. In 2020, at the Liberec-based Nano Medical, she launched the production of a filtration nanomaterial for nanomasks and nanorespirators — AntiMicrobe Web R — with a virus capture rate higher than 99.9%. She now produces around 200,000 square metres of this material per month, which represents an output of six million nanomasks and nanorespirators. Her original intention, however, had been to manufacture nanoplasters and wound dressings for healthcare. The onset of the pandemic turned everything upside down, and Marcela Munzarová set aside her original idea for plasters and began producing the much-needed nanofilters for masks and respirators. 

Now, after two years, she has returned to her original project — the production of medical nanoplasters and wound dressings. Before that happened, she received the international Quality Innovation Award last year for her solution. „The structure of these nanoplasters is similar to the structure of human tissue. In the event of an injury, the plaster acts as a scaffold. New cells multiply within it ideally and climb across it more easily, so they cover the wound faster. This accelerates and improves the healing effect and prevents infections from entering the wound,“ explains Marcela Munzarová, describing the benefits of products that customers will soon be able to try for themselves. 

The nanoplasters were originally due to reach the market as early as spring, but production of the first manufacturing batches was delayed by several months for technical reasons. „I believe that during the summer months the Akutol medical plasters and the cosmetic ChitoFib Patch will already be available in our pharmacies,“ she plans. The Akutol brand is a brand of medical devices for „grazed knees“, while ChitoFib Patch is for cosmetic purposes — for the regeneration and treatment of tired skin on the face, neck and décolletage. „The subject of wound healing has long been a great challenge for me,“ says Marcela Munzarová. „Compared with conventional ‚dry‘ gauze dressings, modern wound-dressing materials offer the advantage of a moist environment, which is more suitable for cell proliferation. However, nanostructures made from biodegradable materials deliver qualitatively even better results — it is a further, higher level of wound care,“ she elaborates.  „Using a nanostructure for wound dressings is not my idea. My idea was what to make it from and how,“ smiles the innovator Munzarová.

Munzarová also tested interest in the novelty at the international medical trade fair in Dubai, which is just coming to an end — it began on Monday 24 January (and ends today, Thursday). „This year’s edition of the fair was about the transformation of healthcare into the world of modern technologies; 3,500 exhibitors from 60 countries around the world took part. The Czech Republic was represented by a dozen exhibitors. And it was very clear there that the old, conventional days really are over,“ Munzarová shared her first impressions.

Source: Nano Medical press release – 27 January 2022