Lectures

Awesome Breaking News

The BMetA nominee,  Morgan Lowther has captured the UK  Final of the Young Persons Lecture Competition in a very, very  competitive event against top quality competition.

Congratulations to Morgan who gave an awesome presentation.

All of the participants gave fantastic talks. It was like X Factor on steroids.Thank you all for a great night. Events like this bring home the value of the IOM3 to material students and practitioners both in service and retired.

Details on the next stage to follow.

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Microbes: 3D Printing Better Implants – Morgan Lowther, BMetA

Over 100,000 joint replacement surgeries take place each year in the UK alone, accounting for 1 in 10 hospital admissions. But the prevalence of metallic implants belies that the human body is among the most challenging environments for materials design. Implants often fail not through mechanical means, but biologically, by failing to integrate with native tissues and being colonised by microbes. With the increasing prevalence of antimicrobial resistance predicted to kill more people than cancer by 2050, making previously simply surgeries life threatening, preventing implant associated infection is a necessity.

Conventional approaches have relied on coatings and other secondary processing to modify implants after manufacture. However, in the past decade, advances in metal additive manufacturing (AM) have opened the possibility of radically new approaches to implant design and materials. How might AM simultaneously revolutionise the production of implants, and help mitigate the threat of antimicrobial resistance?

More information on how to view this event will follow soon.

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