Research on technology to treat eye eyeball lesions reaching Kovalevskaia award

Research results using cell technology to treat the surface injury of eyeballs of a group of 16 scientists will be awarded Kovalevskaia Award in 2014.

Awarding Kovalevskaia Prize 2014 to Vietnamese female scientists

The group consists of associate professors, doctors, masters, bachelors, technicians of the Department of Tissue - Embryology of Hanoi Medical University and Corneal Endocrinology of Central Eye Hospital, led by Assoc. Thị Bình is the representative. They have been creative and successful with the study of using cell technology to treat eye surface injury.

Associate Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thi Binh and scientists of the Department of Tissue - Phy, Hanoi Medical University and Corneal Endocrinology, Central Eye Hospital have researched to find ways to treat injury to the eyeball surface by how to create epithelial cells from different stem cell sources: if a patient has one eye injury, he or she will take stem cells from the edge of the healthy cornea of ​​the eye, if the patient has both eyes removed. Stem cells from the epithelium of the oral mucosa. After successful breeding, the epithelium will transplant itself into the cornea for patients.

Associate Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thi Binh and scientists will be awarded Kovalevskaia Prize in 2014. (Photo: A. T)

This is the new method being applied in the world and is still being studied. In Vietnam, this method is completely new, no units have studied and applied. The methods currently used in Vietnam to treat eye surface lesions are: amniotic membrane transplantation (temporary only), autologous corneal grafting (only applicable to patients with a lesion eye and piece of tissue taken to transplant must be large in size so it will affect the healthy eye), grafting on the heterozygous cornea (patients must take medicine against lifelong graft waste and graft or be eliminated).

Beginning in 2006, the research team was assigned to carry out 2 topics: Ministry-level topic: 'Research on cultivating corneal marginal cells and application in the treatment of some corneal lesions' and Subjects Branch of the State-level project: 'Research on technological process to create human corneal epithelium to treat traumatic corneal lesions' Code: KC.04.01.01 / 06-10. In these 2 topics, the group treated 5 patients with 80% success rate.

As a collective honored to receive the noble Kovalevskaia Prize in 2014, Associate Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thi Binh, representative of the research group, said that at the moment, the research team is studying the process of stem cell culture to treat the disease. Parkinson's, initially good results bring hope to patients with Parkinson's disease in Vietnam. The group will constantly carry out research projects to bring modern treatment methods to treat Vietnamese patients, contributing positively to the cause of people's health care; At the same time, train a team of young scientists to maintain their long-term research direction.