Mark Holterman, MD is a former surgeon at Rush Medical Center that currently applies his expertise in pediatric surgery as a professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria. Prior to his current work, Dr. Mark Holterman served at the Children’s Hospital of Illinois, St Francis Medical Center.
While at the Children’s Hospital, Dr. Holterman helped complete the first trachea transplant for a child. Over the course of nine hours, a 32 month old korean toddler received a stem cell engineered trachea. The cutting edge operation also utilized a non-absorbable nanofiber tracheal scaffold and bioreactor from Harvard BioScience and a Biospherix XVIVO cell incubation and processing system.
The XVIVO cell incubation and processing system allows the cell structures to be grown and stored through a closed system with closed off hoods and cell incubators. Cell incubators of the system, which is modular in design, are integrated into the hood system to avoid contamination risk and reduce volatility. The system also allows additional cell incubators to be incorporated as needed, and each can be customized depending on the specific cell cultures.
For additional information on the XVIVO system, visit www.biospherix.com.
