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University of Wollongong PhD student Sina Jamali will head to the United States to further his research on biodegradable stents after winning the 2013 Bill Wheeler award last night. 

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Mr Jamali, 32, has been working on his research at the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute at UOW's Innovation Campus for the past two years. 

He previously studied at Tehran Polytechnic in Iran and the University of Northampton in England. 

He has teamed up with medical technologies company Boston Scientific to develop biodegradable stents, small mesh tubes that are inserted into blocked blood vessels to restore blood flow. 

Stents are currently made of stainless steel or titanium and never break down in the body. 

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Mr Jamali is focused on developing a coating for magnesium stents to allow them to last three to four months before dissolving into the bloodstream. 

With 20,000 stents used in Australia each year, he says the research could have huge impacts. 

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While the stents are still in the laboratory testing stage, Mr Jamali said the results were promising so far. 

He was excited to win the award because it will allow him to visit institutes in the United States early next year to further test the anti-corrosive properties of the coatings he has developed.