Knowledge exchange case:
Enhancing bone ingrowth
By local delivery of strontium from surface
functionalized Titanium implants
Bone contacting implants
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Atomic number 38
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Industrial use:
– Fireworks
– Glass for CRT monitors
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Clinical use:
– Treatment of osteoporosis
• Strontium ranelate
• Enhancing bone ingrowth by local delivery of
strontium?
Sample preparation and characterization
DC magnetron co-sputter deposition
Sample preparation – scale up
Industrial-scale PVD system at DTI
In vivo model
• Kept for 5 weeks
Analysis of in vivo rat model
Unpublished data
Status of strontium project
• PhD student now employed at Elos Medtech
• “Strontium based coating for body implants”,
PCT/DK2013/050083
• A license agreement has been negotiated
• Elos Medtech is now part of another 3 MEUR
Advanced Technology Foundation Application
(stage 2) together with Aarhus University
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Making knowledge exchange work
• You need something to offer – just as
important people need to know!
• Infrastructure (people, high-tech equipment)
• Basic research and applied research do not
exclude one another
• Support the staff/students in developing
ideas (Venture Cup/Intel Business
Challenge/spin-out etc)