News at Materials in Medicine

In connection with the 100th anniversary of IVA (Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences), the event "Experience, discover and explore - as an engineer" was organized with 600 participating 7th grade students. 

Ken Welch, professor vid institutionen för materialvetenskapm har fått finansiering från innovationsprogrammen Swelifes och Medtech4Healths gemensamma utlysning ”Samverkansprojekt för bättre hälsa” för ett forskningsprojekt om kronisk smärta.

Håkan Engqvist and OssDsign were the winners of this year's Innovation Price at the Enterprise Gala in Uppsala on May 11th, 2017. Congratulations!

We were at the 23rd Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics in Seville, Spain.

Congratulations to Michael Pujari-Palmer for successfully defending his PhD thesis

The Uppsala Biomaterials Meeting will take place on the 21st of November. There will be interesting lectures, talks, poster sessions and networking between local research groups developing biomaterials.

Upptech, or Uppsala University School of Technology, is a new centre founded by the Faculty of Science and Technology. The centre will focus on promoting, distinguishing and strengthening the University’s research and education in Engineering.

Congratulations Jun!

Congratulations to Song Chen for the successful defence of his PhD thesis

Uppsala-based Inossia AB is one of the promising startup companies selected among great competition as one Sweden's most innovative young companies.

Congratulations to Ingrid Ajaxon for successfully defending her PhD thesis

Uppsala University's award for successful knowledge transfer, Hjärnäpplet, was awarded this year to Professor Håkan Engqvist. 

Researcher Wei Xia developed new glass-ceramics that are three times stronger than their current competitors.

Since the 1st of march, Cecilia Persson has become a Professor of Applied Materials Science. Congratulations!

Quantification of elements contained in a material is of vital importance for the development of safe medical devices. From February 2017 the MiM lab has been upgraded with the possibility to do elemental analysis thanks to our new Avio 200 ICP-OES from PerkinElmer.

Our Assoc. Prof. Cecilia Persson has won this year's Göran Gustafsson Big Prize for Young Researchers. Congratulations!

We were at this year's European Society of Biomechanics congress, which took place July 10-13 in Lyon, France.

We helped to organise the Swedish Mechanics Days in Uppsala 12-13th June.

Congratulations to our new Doctor, Céline Robo!

A patient with a large cranial tumor was successfully operated by neurosurgeons at Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden. The majority of the patient’s cranium was substituted with a personalized implant from OssDsign. The implant material is the result of research carried out at Uppsala University and Karolinska University Hospital.

Congratulations Le!

On May 4th, we participated at the National Conference on Cooperation for Innovation in Stockholm.

We were at this year's popular science festival SciFest arranged yearly by Uppsala University to reach out and inform the society. Over 7000 people visited SciFest and our booth was full of curious visitors in all ages, who were mixing bone cements, 3D-printing bone, and discussing today's bone implants and future life long joints.

Håkan Engqvist received a grant for 28,7 MSEK from the SSF for the synthesis and processing of active calcium phospate cements. This five years grant is part of the SSF's focus on framework grants in materials science. A total dividend of 600 MSEK was granted to materials scientists all over Sweden. 

We were present at this year’s Scandinavian Society of Biomaterials meeting (1^st-3^rd June, 2016) which took place in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Caleva, the spheronization company, visited us from the UK to install and train us on our new extruder/spheronizer.

Congratulations to our most recent doctors Yixiao Cai and Shiuli Pujari-Palmer who succesfully defended their PhD theses in June 2016.

Cecilia Persson introduced our group at the opening ceremony of Medtech Science & Innovation Centre in Uppsala on June 14th, 2017.