Artificial Skin
notes: label: Description
content: Ioannis V. Yannas (1935) was born in Greece, came to the United for college, and graduated from Harvard College. After earning graduate degrees from Princeton University and M.I.T., he became a professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at M.I.T. In 1969, John F. Burke, a burn surgeon, asked Dr. Yannas for help: he had made significant strides in burn treatment but needed a way to keep the bacteria out and the moisture in. Dr. Yannas then put together a team of researchers that developed Integra Membrane, an artificial skin that fit the bill, and that received FDA approval in 1996. This is a sample of that material.
label: Description
content: Ref: “An artificial skin developed at MIT,” Boston Globe (Dec. 28, 1975), p. 24.
label: Description
content: “Artificial skin helps to heal severe burns,” Boston Globe (June 20, 1983), pp. 33 and 35.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0167.01
label: accession number
content: 1997.0167
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0167.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Artificial Skin
label: Object Name
content: skin, artificial
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored: 1/4 in x 6 in x 6 5/8 in; .635 cm x 15.24 cm x 16.8275 cm