Name: 麻省理工學院機械工程系的救命發現 (A Life-Saving Discovery at MIT MechE)
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Please welcome MIT professor and 2015 National Inventors

This discovery changed my professional life.

The discovery we made, Dr. John Burke-- my surgeon colleague

It was a big surprise, totally unexpected, and hard

but it was soon recognized as the first example of organ

Being inducted to the National Inventors Hall of Fame

is a very big honor for me, especially when I

who had been previously deducted-- names like Steve

Jobs and Wozniak, Louis Pasteur, the Wright Brothers--

My photo was shown like I was the leader of a totalitarian

What I see is what used to be many, many years ago

Some of our nation's greatest living inventors.

The recognition that this work is getting

will make it more clear there is something here

that has future and needs to be developed by other people

and made into one of the brand new tools of medicine.

In 1969, I was an assistant professor at MIT.

to meet one of the doctors in the Boston area.

Burke who was then head of the Shriners Burns

I found in him in a very difficult problem in medicine

that I thought I could contribute to each solution.

And I think what he saw in me was a material scientist who

There was a mutual clicking that happened when we met.

Dr. Burke was looking for a very sophisticated Band-Aid.

He had patients who were mostly children.

Basically, the prelude to death unless you do something

I remember very clearly the day that Dr. Burke took me

I was shocked beyond belief in what I was seeing there.

It was a very important moment in my life,

I remember the children were lying in their beds.

There was extensive bandaging of faces and limbs in these kids.

Dr. Burke would softly explain the situation to me.

These pictures, in my mind, have stayed with me.

There was a great deal of human misery that was confronting me.

And I felt that I had to do something about it.

It was clear that we needed to solve the problem

The objective of speeding up the rate of closing of these wounds

that Dr. Burke and I would have to solve.

My students and myself were synthesizing polymers

things like plastics, rubbers, textile fibers,

We were putting things dressings in foils.

and then go to the Shriners animal laboratory facility.

The technician would then put them on the animals.

This was going on family after chemical family.

So far the projects had been a total failure.

I started thinking that maybe a polymer I had been working

with in my PhD thesis, which was collagen-- a collagen is

that maybe I should try this since almost everything else

instead of speeding up the rates of closure,

it actually delayed it and make it very, very slow

Nobody likes to have a failed experiment.

Trying to get to understand why the experiment had failed

This was a great moment for myself and for Dr. Burke.

we decided to do with that failure, which

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