RESTORATION OF APPEARANCE AND FUNCTION TRUST

RAFT is an independent medical research charity based at Mount Vernon Hospital in Northwood.  Scientists are working on improving treatment for patients with injury or trauma to the skin or limbs.

Smart Matrix Wound Healing Project – Smart Matrix, a skin scaffold, is put into a wound, and aids more proficient healing, encouraging the body to heal itself.  It would provide life saving skin cover for major burns, elderly people with leg ulcers and skin cancer patients.

The Bionic Limb Project is looking into a better device for amputees, aiding better movement and rotation as with a real limb.

• RAFT is not NHS or government funded.
• Smart Matrix is hopefully going to clinical trial this year and will continue to be improved further.
• Our Bionic Limb Project is going into the engineering stages this year.

Charity No. 299811            www.raft.ac.uk
Contact: Clare Wooster, Community Fundraiser, From Pinner
Telephone: 01923 844 760
Email: Woosterc@raft.ac.uk