Core Laboratories for the improvement of medical devices in clinical practice from the analysis of implanted prostheses

Project coordinator
prof. Rolando Barbucci, Universitia di Siena, Siena, Italy.

Partners
University of Turku, Turku, Finland; National University of Ireland, Galway; Universita de Milano, Crisma, Italy; Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel. und Medizinprodukte, Bonn, Germany; University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands; Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Portugal; ETH-Zurich, Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology, Switzerland; Johannes Gutenberg University, Institute of Pathology, Germany; Lille-2 University, Laboratory of Biomaterials Research, France; Tubitak-Mrc, Mctri, Turkey; Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic.

Aim of project
The main objective of the action is to facilitate the understanding of failure of explanted prostheses, providing recognition of device complications, elucidating patient-prosthesis interaction, and determining tissue-material interaction mechanisms.

Expected results
This action provides prosthesis selection criteria reducing device complications. This benefi t has to be considered the main one for the health of patients, but also from a scientifi c and surgical point of view it provides recognition of device complications, elucidating patient prosthesis interactions and determining tissue-material interaction mechanisms.

The rationale of this action is to accelerate advances in this field, to develop new research tools, materials and applications for the improvement of health and to enhance an exemplary network of international collaborations by including new EU laboratories dealing with this area as well as certain non-EU research groups, which have specific expertise which would greatly enhance the program of research.

Furthermore, the action will provide a common understanding to test methods which will improve the development of ISO standards.