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Custom-IMD
SME Supply Chain Integration for Enhanced Fully Customisable Medical Implants, using new Biomaterials & Rapid Manufacturing Technologies, to enhance the Quality of Life for EU Citizens.
The 2010 industry paradigm will be that the 'Implantable Medical Device' surgeon will plan & execute surgical operations based solely on the clinical needs of the patient. Custom-IMD will realise this vision through the development of new biomaterials for the manufacture of innovative fully customised medical implants using enhanced rapid manufacturing technologies; achieving implant design, manufacture, sterilisation, regulatory approval & delivery to the surgeon within a 48-hour time frame.
The core project objectives are:
- The development of innovative biomaterials (ceramics, bio-passive, bio-active & shape-memory polymers) for use in Rapid Manufacturing.
- To undertake in-vitro, cell culture & in-vivo animal studies for the new biomaterials, thus generating a strong toxicological & biocompatibility knowledge base.
- To achieve innovations within five Rapid Manufacturing techniques enabling the processing of the selected biomaterials achieving targeted material properties & timeframe.
- To achieve integration of the medically certified e-supply chain management (confidential patient data, material supply, implant design & manufacture, sterilisation & certification) enabling customised implants to be supplied to the surgeon within 48 hours.
- The design, manufacture & testing of three fully customisable implant products (craniofacial bone plate; lumbar spinal disc replacement; & dental restoration) achieving target implant specifications.
- To demonstrate the direct economic savings to the European healthcare service for customisable implants & to quantify their wider economic & societal added value.
The project objectives demonstrate high relevance to the NMP objectives of FP7, including industrial transformation towards high-tech/knowledge-based processes & products; higher added value (economic competitiveness); the generation of new knowledge; & greater European integration across science, industry & society.
Start date: 1/02/2007
Completion date: 31/01/2011
For more information, please visit - www.customimd.eu
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