Partners

Relevant Expertise/Experience
• Functional Wear Simulation (Pre-clinical assessment of coatings)
• Biological Assessment of Wear Debris and Corrosion Products, in vitro and in vivo
• Tribo-corrosion within Total Joint Prostheses
• Coating – PVD/HIPIMS equipment
• Exploitation of the research outcomes through standards
• European Project Coordination

Role in the project
Coordination, WP2 and WP7 leader:
• Functional wear and tribocorrosion facilities/expertise
• Functional testing of the prototype prostheses
• Wear particle isolation and characterization expertise
• In vitro particle: cell biological response assays
• Surface characterisation
• Coating deposition and characterisation
• Dissemination and exploitation

Relevant Expertise/Experience
• Computational musculoskeletal biomechanics
• Finite element modelling (FEM)
• Medical Device Design
• Participation in large national and international research awards

Role in the project
WP3 leader:
• FEM of the hip joint
• use of co-simulation to predict deleterious conditions for wear and corrosion
• Motion capture and in vivo fluoroscopic analysis of the lower limb
• Aiding design of in vivo animal experiments
• Dissemination and exploitation

Relevant Expertise/Experience
• Coatings deposition and characterisation
• Surface Characterisation
• Tribology
• Participation in large national and international research awards

Role in the project
WP1 leader:
• Coating deposition and optimisation
• Assess coating (pre- and post-testing)
• Tribological assessment
• Dissemination and Exploitation

Relevant Expertise/Experience
• Utilisation of coatings within medical devices including artificial joint surfaces
• Industrial implementation of coatings technology
• Compliance with the regulatory requirements
• Commercialisation of coating technology
• Exploitation through standards

Role in the project
WP4 leader:
• Industrial scale-up of HIPIMS technology
• Manufacturing specimens for coating characterisation
• Manufacturing prototypes for pre-clinical assessment
• Exploitation through (a) standards and (b) coating commercialisation

Relevant Expertise/Experience
• Functional joint simulator design and manufacturer
• Mechanical engineering and control systems design
• Standards Development

Role in the project
• Design/manufacturer – new generation wear simulator
• Design/ manufacture – new generation whole-joint tribocorrosion simulator
• Exploitation through (a) standards and (b) commercialisation of the simulation technology

Relevant Expertise/Experience
• Design and execution of in vivo animal experiments
• Research Ethics
• Participation in large national and international research awards

Role in the project
WP5 leader:
• Delivery of in vivo assessment of the coating under 3 scenarios
• Expertise on ethical aspects of the project

Relevant Expertise/Experience
• Advanced gait and muscle function evaluation facilities
• Clinical advisory capacity
• Clinical experience of primary and revision hip procedures including analysis
• Participation in large national and international research awardsRole in the project
• Provision of motion and muscle strength data to (a) validate computation models and (b) provide initial inputs to pre-clinical tests
• Clinical advisory capacity
• Dissemination and Exploitation

Relevant Expertise/Experience
• Advanced motion capture facilities
• Clinical advisory capacity
• Clinical experience of primary and revision hip procedures including analysis

Role in the project
• Provision of motion capture data to (a) validate computation models and (b) provide initial inputs to pre-clinical tests
• Clinical advisory capacity
• Dissemination and Exploitation

Relevant Expertise/Experience
• Design, manufacture and marketing of medical devices including artificial joint
• Compliance with the regulatory requirements
• Commercialisation of medical devices
• Exploitation through commercialisation

Role in the project
• Provision of test specimens for pre-clinical testing of coating
• Advice on the regulatory and exploitation plan
• Testing of the prototype prostheses
• Exploitation through (a) standards and (b) device commercialisation

Relevant Expertise/Experience
• Computational musculoskeletal biomechanics by multi-body dynamic modeling
• Software development
• Exploitation through copyrighted software
• Participation in large national and international research awards

Role in the project
• Development of enhanced multi-body dynamic model of the hip
• Prediction of adverse conditions incl. software interfaces to related technologies in the project
• Exploitation through developments within ABT software, primarily the AnyBody Modeling System and Managed Model Repository
• Dissemination and Exploitation

Relevant Expertise/Experience
• Coatings deposition and characterisation
• Surface Characterisation
• Tribology
• HIPIMS coating technology
• Participation in large national and international research awards

Role in the project
• HIPIMS coating deposition and optimisation
• Characterisation of coating
• Dissemination and Exploitation

Relevant Expertise/Experience
• Knowledge transfer
• Research Management and Innovation
• Participation in large national and international research awards

Role in the project
WP6 leader:
• Coordination of all activities relating to exploitation and dissemination
• Mediator for exploitation interests
• Organiser of symposia and other knowledge transfer events
• Developer/maintainer of project website

Relevant Expertise/Experience
• Retrieval analysis of medical devices
• In vitro simulation
• Exploitation of the research outcomes through standards
• Participation in large national and international awards

Role in the project
• Analyses of explanted components
• Mechanical simulation of damage in modular components
• Dissemination and Exploitation

Relevant Expertise/Experience
• Design, manufacture and marketing of medical devices including artificial joint
• Compliance with the regulatory requirements
• Commercialisation of medical devices
• Exploitation through commercialisation

Role in the project
• Provision of test specimens for pre-clinical testing of coating
• Advice on the regulatory and exploitation plan
• Testing of the prototype prostheses
• Exploitation through (a) standards and (b) device commercialisation

Relevant Expertise/Experience
• Tribology
• Modelling of tribological systems
• Elastohydrodynaic lubrication modelling

Role in the project
• Computational modelling of the joint scale implant
• Development of tribo-corrosion models