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20 September 2018

University of Birmingham chooses Renishaw systems for healthcare research

As part of a new centre for custom medical devices, the University of Birmingham has installed two Renishaw metal additive manufacturing systems. The systems have been installed in the School of Materials and Metallurgy as part of a project to form the foundation for a healthcare partnership. The centre will bring together academia, clinical and industrial practise to speed up time to market for medical devices and improve the options available to patients.

One project is looking at cranioplasty, a common procedure with a high infection rate. The University of Birmingham is working with a UK business, Accentus Medical, looking at applying technology to the surface of customised metal AM cranial plates to reduce the chance of infections. This project could dramatically impact patients’ quality of life.

“Additive manufacturing increases the design freedom for medical devices,” explained Dr Sophie Cox of the Healthcare Technologies Institute at the University of Birmingham. “Using the technology, we have flexibility in implant geometry and material choice. The installation of the RenAM 500M systems will create a new centre for custom medical devices at the University of Birmingham.

 

 


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