Burn victims suffer a unique agony. The pain of their injury is compounded by the rigorous cleansing required to ward off infection, a common and often fatal complication. The work of George T. Rodeheaver, a professor in the U.Va. Department of Plast...

The University of Virginia Patent Foundation honored the 2008 Edlich-Henderson Inventor of the Year and those University inventors who received U.S. patents and copyrights in 2007 at a special ceremony held Monday evening at the Boar’s Head Inn. Geor...

A University of Virginia professor is being honored as the inventor of the year for a gel that treats burns and chronic wounds. The University of Virginia Patent Foundation named George T. Rodeheaver, a 36-year veteran in the U.Va. Department of Plas...

The University of Virginia Patent Foundation has selected George T. Rodeheaver, Ph.D., distinguished professor in U.Va.’s Department of Plastic Surgery, as the 2008 Edlich-Henderson Inventor of the Year. Rodeheaver was chosen for the revolutionary wo...