Project Objectives

GIOTTO integrates different types of expertise to finally offer better treatment solutions for patients wellbeing, leveraging on technologies such as:

  • 3D-printing and the most updated technologies for bone scaffold manufacturing will be put in place together with nano-functionalisation for the smart release of active molecules and ions
  • Functionalised magnetic nanoparticles to allow controlled mechano-transduction
  • An Internet of Things platform will be developed to gather and collate measurable data inputs about device effectiveness and to provide decision support software as a service to improve the design, manufacture and clinical function of the proposed devices, ultimately managing the overall value chain
  • Safety and sustainability of the final solutions will guide the overall development since the beginning, though testing and the involvement of regulators
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The target is develop a platform of technologies and materials that are specific for different types of osteoporotic fractures:

LONG BONE FRACTURES

3D graded scaffold, which can be fixed with screws

PELVIC FRACTURES

fibrous scaffold to deal with small pelvic fractures

VERTEBRAL FRACTURES

radiopaque, bioresorbable, injectable cement to stabilise vertebral fractures

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