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Introduction

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 a doctoral training programme aimed at bioengineering early stage researchers, to train bioengineers to be in a position to design the next generation of repair materials and techniques for spine surgery.

Spinner brings together partners from the biomaterials (Finceramica), implantable devices (Aesculap), and computational modelling (Ansys, Adagos) industries with orthopaedic clinicians (National Centre for Spinal Disorders, NCSD) and academic experts in cell, tissue and organ scale biomaterials and medical device testing (the University of ºù«Ӱҵ and the University of Bologna).

Spinner objectives

• Training of orthopaedic bioengineers capable of integrating in vitro, ex vivo and in silico data across scales for a holistic approach to spine reconstruction.
• Development of bioactive, bio-resorbable, mechanically competent materials for restoration of the vertebral bone and stable fusion.
• Mechanical characterisation of implant materials and reconstructed spines in vitro and in silico.
• Integrated, user-friendly, in silico models of the mechanics of damaged and reconstructed spinal segments that can be used for predictive design, patient specific analysis and surgical navigation.

Contact

For more information about Spinned-EID, contact Normal Powell.