News at Materials in Medicine
Innovation will improve care for chronic pain
2020-04-22
Ken Welch, professor at the Department of Materials Science, has received funding from the innovation programs Swelife's and Medtech4Health's joint call "Collaboration project for better health" for a research project on chronic pain.https://uuinnovation.uu.se/aktuellt/?tarContentId=864058
The aim of the project is to improve the treatment of chronic pain by developing a sensor that can locate deep-seated tissue anomalies that occur in long-term muscular and skeletal pain.
Project manager Ken Welch says that the background to the project is clinical and physical observations made by DoloRadix CEO Mårten Prosell during 20 years of clinical work in the medical field. Today, there is a prototype of the sensor developed in Ken Welch's research group.
The project is a collaboration between academic research and industry. The project includes academic groups from the Department of Materials Science and the Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences at Uppsala University and the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute. On the industrial side, the companies DoloRadix and Progress Orthopedic Medicine participate.
Read more about the project on the UU innovation website
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100th anniversary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
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.
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Innovation will improve care for chronic pain
Ken Welch, professor at the Department of Materials Science, has received funding from the innovation programs Swelife's and Medtech4Health's joint call "Collaboration project for better health" for a research project on chronic pain.https://uuinnovation.uu.se/aktuellt/?tarContentId=864058
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Innovation ska förbättra vården vid kronisk smärta
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.
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Innovation price to Håkan Engqvist
Håkan Engqvist and OssDsign were the winners of this year's Innovation Price at the Enterprise Gala in Uppsala on May 11th, 2017. Congratulations!
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MiM at the ESB conference 2017
We were at the 23rd Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics in Seville, Spain.
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PhD defence Michael Pujari-Palmer
Congratulations to Michael Pujari-Palmer for successfully defending his PhD thesis
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Uppsala Biomaterials Meeting: November 21st
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.
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Upptech – A new centre for technology in Uppsala
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.
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MiM at CMBEE 2018 in Lisbon
Members of the MiM were presenting at the CMBBE 2018 in Lisbon and joining the final partner assembly of the LifeLongJoints project.
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Jun Luo PhD dissertation
Congratulations Jun!
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The American Ceramic Society: "Gain a winning smile with glass-ceramics"
Check out the press release from The American Ceramic Society here.
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PhD defence Song Chen
Congratulations to Song Chen for the successful defence of his PhD thesis
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New Bone Cement for Osteoporosis gets Vinnova Grant
Uppsala-based Inossia AB is one of the promising startup companies selected among great competition as one Sweden's most innovative young companies.
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PhD defence Ingrid Ajaxon
Congratulations to Ingrid Ajaxon for successfully defending her PhD thesis
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Hjärnäpplet awarded to Håkan Engqvist
Uppsala University's award for successful knowledge transfer, Hjärnäpplet, was awarded this year to Professor Håkan Engqvist.
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Calcium Phosphates: The Man-Made Bone?
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Wei Xia is aiming for better oral health
Researcher Wei Xia developed new glass-ceramics that are three times stronger than their current competitors.
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Congratulations to our new Professor, Cecilia Persson!
Since the 1st of march, Cecilia Persson has become a Professor of Applied Materials Science. Congratulations!
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New ICP-OES will expand our capacity for elemental analysis
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.
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Cecilia Persson won the Göran Gustafsson's Prize
Our Assoc. Prof. Cecilia Persson has won this year's Göran Gustafsson Big Prize for Young Researchers. Congratulations!
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We were at the ESB congress 2016 in France
We were at this year's European Society of Biomechanics congress, which took place July 10-13 in Lyon, France.
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SVT: "New material should provide better and stronger dentures"
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MiM at the 25th Swedish Mechanics Days
We helped to organise the Swedish Mechanics Days in Uppsala 12-13th June.
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Céline Robo PhD dissertation
Congratulations to our new Doctor, Céline Robo!
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Patient with a large cranial tumor was successfully operated
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.
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Le Fu PhD dissertation
Congratulations Le!
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MiM at ScSB 2018
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MiM at the National Conference on Cooperation for Innovation
On May 4th, we participated at the National Conference on Cooperation for Innovation in Stockholm.
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MiM at SciFest
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.
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28,7 MSEK granted from SSF
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.
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We were at the ScSB 2016 in Iceland
We were present at this year’s Scandinavian Society of Biomaterials meeting (1st-3rd June, 2016) which took place in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Installation of our new spheronizer
Caleva, the spheronization company, visited us from the UK to install and train us on our new extruder/spheronizer.
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PhD defences Yixiao Cai and Shiuli Pujari-Palmer
Congratulations to our most recent doctors Yixiao Cai and Shiuli Pujari-Palmer who succesfully defended their PhD theses in June 2016.
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New biomaterials can enable patient-specific treatments
Cecilia Persson introduced our group at the opening ceremony of Medtech Science & Innovation Centre in Uppsala on June 14th, 2017.