Tailored biodegradable magnesium implant materials

General Information

Cost reduction and improvement of the quality of life is a major issue in health care. This challenge can be tackled by intelligent biomaterials and smart implants which are resorbed by the body upon remodelling of the tissue: What is possible for polymer materials should also be realized for biodegradable metallic materials. MagnIM will train 12 ESRs to contribute to this demanding aims by the development of new aluminium free Magnesium implant materials with tailored properties specific for a bone related application especially in children and for sport medicine. To reach this goal carefully selected materials and processing routes will be combined with comprehensive research to elucidate the correlation between microstructure and corrosion processes. This will be monitored in vitro and in vivo. The ultimate goal will be a prototype implant design which is based on the achievements of this network. To do this, the specific combination of the MagnIM research team is necessary.
MagnIM brings together world leading scientists from various research fields: Material scientists and engineers who develop new alloys with tailored properties for biomedical applications and medical scientists and biologists researching on macroand microscopically changes in bones and bone cells with in vitro and in vivo methods. MagnIM collectively covers basically all aspects, instrumental techniques and approaches necessary to tackle successfully the challenge to understand, and ultimately control, interactions at the material – bone interface. The full achievements of this research are gained because the consortium covers the full value chain from fundamental engineering research towards implant production including relevant industry partners and clinics.

EU-Programme Acronym and Subprogramme Area	FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2011
Project Type	Marie Curie Initial Training Network
Contract Number	Grant Agreement 289163
Co-ordinator	Helmholtz Zentrum Hereon (DE)

Total Eligible Costs (€)	Hereon Eligible Costs (€)	EC Funding for Hereon (€)
3.129.778	900.405	900.405

Contact Person at Hereon

Prof Regine Willumeit, Institute of Materials Research, WPS Phone: +49 4152 87 1291, Fax: +49 4152 87 1356 Dr.-Ing. Norbert Hort, MagIC - Magnesium Innovation Center Tel: +49 4152 87 1905, Fax: +49 4152 87 1909 E-mail contact

Participants

aap Biomaterials GmbH Co KG (DE), Charles University Prague (CZ), ConMed Linvatec Biomaterials OY (FI), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (BE), Malmö University (SE), Medizinische Universität Graz (AT)

Last Update: 18. May 2021