Ratner BioMedical Inc., a medical devices company based in Redmond,WA, focuses on commercializing synergistic innovations in biopolymers, nanotechnology, regenerative medicine and neuroscience as an integrated surgical platform. Research from Johns Hopkins U., Duke U. & U. of WA, promise a paradigm shift in the treatment of peripheral nerve trauma, supplanting sural grafting by using “active” biodegradable nerve guides that treat several times the length as current passive hollow tubes.