Today, many hospitals cannot afford to use the advanced solutions currently available based on tissue engineering to treat deep wounds and burns. Given their relatively high perceived costs, it is difficult to draw clear conclusions in terms of cost-benefit for the treatment of traumatic wounds, which vary considerably in their presentation. Therefore, there is an urgent need for a product that would significantly reduce treatment costs while producing outcomes equivalent to those of current tissue engineering-based products.

Therefore, the objective of the Deepcure project is the development of an innovative and affordable 3D biomaterial based on purified eggshell membrane protein (PEP) for deep wounds and burns.