Spinner has recruited a group of six Bioengineering early stage researchers (ESRs) to be in positions to design the next generation of repair materials and techniques for spine surgery. The project brings together partners from the biomaterials, implantable devices, and computational modelling industries with orthopaedic clinicians and academic experts in cell, tissue and organ scale biomaterials and medical device testing.
All projects will be fully grounded in practical industrial and clinical requirements, where the number of patients requiring complex spine surgery is rapidly expanding, and the biomedical engineering industry needs suitably trained, innovators to produce economic solutions to support healthy ageing for the people of Europe.
Spinner is an academic, clinical and industrial partnership. The ESRs will be expected to interact with several partners during their three years of research. The partners are
- The University of Sheffield, UK
- University of Bologna, Italy
- Finceramica, Italy
- National Centre for Spinal Disorders, Hungary
- Ansys, France
- ADAGOS, France
- Aesculap, Germany
The ESRs have been recruited for 36 months. They will be enrolled onto a PhD programme at one of the academic partner institutions. They will expect to spend at least 18 months at a non-academic partner institution.
Read more about our Spinner fellows.