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End-to-end multidisciplinary optimal design for improved personalized bioactive glass/ceramic bone substitute implants

Project description

Transforming bone replacement technology

Ageing and trauma pose formidable challenges to the musculoskeletal system, burdening clinical systems with critical-size bone defects. With the support of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, the REBONE project aims to revolutionise bone replacement, using 3D-printed personalised implants crafted from bioactive ceramics. This multidisciplinary initiative promises tailored solutions for improved clinical outcomes, robust materials ensuring mechanical reliability, and advanced manufacturing technologies. To redefine bone health, the project’s innovative approach holds the key to transforming how we address critical-size bone defects, ensuring a personalised, effective and reliable treatment paradigm. REBONE integrates in silico models, advanced computational methods and validation techniques, promising tailored implants for superior osteointegration.

Objective

The musculoskeletal system is extremely vulnerable to ageing and traumatic events, and common clinical conditions often exert a high burden on the clinical system. For patients requiring bone-substitute implants to treat critical-size bone defects, new solutions are required for meeting important unmet needs: personalised solutions for better clinical outcomes; improvements in materials to ensure higher mechanical reliability without compromising bioactive and bioresorbable properties; optimised manufacturing technologies for materials and products of high reliability and quality.
REBONE is a four-year doctoral network that aims to innovatively train a new generation of researchers to develop a multidisciplinary optimisation process to provide technologies for 3D-printed personalised bone replacement implants based on bioactive ceramics. The ultimate scientific goal is to construct a platform of computational tools that will enable clinical experts to produce customized bone graft substitutes for the treatment of critical-size bone defects. This innovation will ensure that an ideal treatment solution is found on a patient-specific basis in terms of: i) mechanical and mechano-biological performance, ii) surgical implantability, and iii) manufacturing process reliability.
Furthermore REBONE will develop state-of-the-art in silico models based on advanced computational methods and advanced characterisation and validation techniques to obtain personalised implants with a surgical planning visualization system in mixed reality with the following characteristics: i) tailored and reliable mechanical and physical properties; ii) best osteointegration capability; iii) targeted mechanical, physical and mechano-biological functions with patient-specific constraints taking into account the load-bearing anatomical location. Four selected clinical cases will be used as demonstrators of the optimization design and manufacturing process.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN - HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral Networks

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01

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Coordinator

POLITECNICO DI MILANO
Net EU contribution
€ 482 842,20
Address
PIAZZA LEONARDO DA VINCI 32
20133 Milano
Italy
Region
Nord-Ovest Lombardia Milano
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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