Moving additive manufacturing beyond anatomical customisation
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Moving additive manufacturing beyond anatomical customisation
Wed, 27/04/2022 - 13:30 to 14:30
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Speaker:
Sophie Cox
Synopsis:
In recent decades additive manufacturing (AM) has increased in popularity as a method by which to produce patient-specific implants. The growth of these technologies has been driven by the inherent design freedoms of AM that are enabled through layer-by-layer processing. These implants are customised to the patient's anatomy and as such offer benefits in terms of better fit and reduced surgery times. Our research is focused on fully exploiting metal AM processes to enable new functional advantages of these custom medical devices. In this talk, Dr Cox shall highlight these possibilities through three case studies each of which focused on enhancing clinical performance by optimising different stages of the AM supply chain.
Biography:
Dr Sophie C. Cox is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Chemical Engineering and the Healthcare Technologies Institute (HTI) at the University of Birmingham. Her vision is to improve patient quality of life by innovating new medical devices with unprecedented functionality. These translational activities are underpinned by basic science focused on understanding the biological response to biomaterials and unearthing mechanisms of action.