He is a leading researcher on the human applications and he has provided me with assistance and advice as I developed my project. He is currently working on the biochemical basis of maggot therapy and maintains a fly colony which provides maggots for medical procedures. I have been awarded a Fulbright Grant to do research in Egypt from October 2000-June 2001 at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Cairo University. During this time I will be testing the application of blow fly maggots to chronic wounds in animals. The purpose is to develop a system of wound care that can be used by veterinarians, veterinary nurses, livestock owners and others.
Chronic wounds are one of the leading causes of the invaliding of work animals.
My system is designed to provide any clinic or person with their own breeding colony of clean blow flies which will provide maggots whenever they are needed. This web page is a report of my work in progress. I will post information about the project in general as well as the results of the application of maggot debridement to specific animals. My objective is get as many cases and as wide a variety of animals as possible into this study. I hope to include working species, pets, and food species.