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The Faculty is delighted to offer our congratulations to Dr Peter Pivonka , who together with his colleagues from the University of Sydney - Dr H. Zreiqa, Dr C. Wu and Professor K Johnson - have received ARC Linkage Project  funding of AU $503 500 over four years for the project  " Scaffolds for bone tissue regeneration and use in orthopaedic applications ".

The project will be carried out in collaboration with Vesobu Pty Ltd.

Project Summary:
Damaged joints do not repair spontaneously, often leading to arthritis. Bone defects resulting from congenital defects or disease processes are challenging to regenerate and represent a major financial burden to our health system. Bone graft treatments are widely used but have considerable drawbacks. This created a need for scaffolds to provide temporary support for new bone. However they lack the combined physical/biological properties necessary for bone repair. We developed new scaffolds with improved mechanical/biological properties to mimic bone which will lead to new treatments for bone damage.