Project description
A new approach to combat biofilm infections
Orthopaedic implant-associated biofilm infections pose a significant public health challenge, as biofilms create protective barriers that render conventional antibiotics and immune responses ineffective. This often leads to prolonged antibiotic treatments, heightening the risk of antibiotic resistance. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the LC-NanoCoat project addresses this pressing issue by developing innovative nanostructural coatings for implants. By integrating surface chemistry, 3D morphological analysis, and precision engineering, the project aims to create effective, flexible, and universal strategies for combating biofilm formation. Using advanced techniques such as GISAXS and neutron reflection, LC-NanoCoat seeks to transform orthopaedic implant patterning, enhancing their ability to prevent infections and improve patient outcomes through targeted, nanostructured surfaces.
Objective
Orthopedic implant-associated biofilm infections represent a major public health and socioeconomic burden due the intrinsic tolerance of biofilms that behave as protective and immobile scaffolds to conventional antibiotics and immune system. Further, their long-term and repeated antibiotic treatments lead to an increased potential of antibiotic resistance development. Here, this interdisciplinary proposed project integrates innovative aspects of surface chemistry, 3D morphological characterization of coated implants, and precision engineering with attributes for production of much needed biofilm-targeting nanostructural implant coatings. It also considers the urgent societal needs for introducing an effective, flexible, and universal approach in orthopedic implant patterning and functionalization for combatting and preventing implant-associated biofilms. This core approach is based on controlled patterning with inverse non-lamellar lyotropic liquid crystalline phases having unique nanostructural versatility through prior precision priming of new 3D porous implant surfaces with tailor-made coating method, and their thorough characterization by using different modalities including GISAXS, neutron reflection, high-resolution X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and X-ray micro-computed tomography. This is in combination with in vitro profiling on model implant-associated biofilm infections. The project provides an environment with independent research activities for building my professional skills in a research topic at the interface of nanoscience, surface chemistry, and experimental medicine. In addition to training at different synchrotron facilities, my research career will be certainly advanced owing to the gained experience with state-of-art biophysical tools and supervision of Master students.
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- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy pharmaceutical drugs antibiotics
- medical and health sciences medical biotechnology implants
- natural sciences physical sciences optics spectroscopy
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01
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1165 KOBENHAVN
Denmark
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