Nuclear Malaysia has played an important role in the establishment of tissue and bone banks in the country since early 1990s. Nuclear Malaysia Tissue Bank provides consultancy and assistance to the local tissue and bone banks in radiation sterilisation of their tissue products, which include amnion, bone, muscular skeletal soft tissues and pericardium, for safe clinical use.

Nuclear Malaysia Tissue Bank offers its facility for the training on tissue bank to local operators and international Atomic Energy Agency fellows. This offer is also extended to students of higher learning institutions who can make use of the facility to conduct their post-graduate projects.

In the mid 1990’s, the Nuclear Malaysia Tissue Bank started to diversify its research into developing a synthetic hydrogel-based wound dressing. The process has been filed for patent in 2000 and now being licensed to a local manufacturer for commercial production. Hence, the researchers are actively conducting the R&D on the production of hydrogel using sago starch, chitosan, honey and from aloe vera’s extract.

Nuclear Malaysia is ready to help medical suppliers and tissue graft and biomaterial producers in providing dose radiation certification for strilisation based on ISO 11137, the standard requirements for international quality system.