Six Marie Skłodowska-Curie early stage researchers

SPINNER (SPINe: Numerical and Experimental Repair strategies) is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Innovative Training Networks (ITN) European Industrial Doctorate (EID) aimed at improving treatments for spine disorders.

A group photo of the Spinner fellows.
The Spinner fellows at their first training event hosted by Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen, Germany. Left to right: Marco Sensale, Denata Syla, Chloé Techens, Cameron James, Jennifer Fayad, José Rui Rodrigues.

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 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.

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