Polymer Ceramic Hybrid Acetabular Liner: Bench to Bedside Translation

Indo-MIM, based in Bangalore, Karnataka, is the manufacturing partner for the fabrication of the designed hip implant prototypes. It is expected that this collaboration will lead to establishing the feasibility of large volume manufacturing of the implants, so that the translational impact to human healthcare would be realized.

References

1. Vidushi Sharma, Suryasarathi Bose, Biswanath Kundu, Subhadip Bodhak, Mitun Das, Vamsi Balla, Bikramjit Basu; Probing influence of ?-sterilization on the oxidation, crystallization, sliding wear resistance and cytocompatibility of chemically modified graphene oxide reinforced HDPE/UHMWPE nanocomposites and wear debris; ACS Biomater. Sci. & Eng. 6 [3] (2020) 1462-1475.

2. S. Bodhak, S. Nath and B. Basu; Friction and wear properties of novel HDPE-HAp-Al2O3 biocomposites against alumina counterface; J. Biomaterials Applications 23 (2009) 407-433.

3. Subhomoy Chatterjee, Sabine Kobylinski and Bikramjit Basu; Finite element analysis to probe the influence of acetabular shell design, liner material and subject parameters on biomechanical response in periprosthetic bone, ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 140 (2018) 101014.

 

About Dr. Bikramjit Basu Dr. Bikramjit Basu is currently a Professor at the Materials Research Center, with joint appointment at the Center for Biosystems Science and Engineering, IISc, Bangalore. He also serves as Visiting Professor at University of Manchester, UK and at the European Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass. After his undergraduate and postgraduate degree in Metallurgical Engineering from NIT Durgapur (1995) and IISc (1997) respectively, he earned in 2001 his PhD at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He served as a faculty in Materials Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur (2001-2011) and moved to IISc in May, 2011. Since 2015, he is leading India’s largest Translational Center of Excellence (CoE) on biomaterials, with 15 co-investigators. Prof. Basu’s untiring efforts have led to the creation of the national hub of activities on biomaterials and implants with involvement of several researchers. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed research papers in leading journals and holds 7 Indian patents. He is the author of 7 textbooks, 2 edited books and one research monograph in the interdisciplinary areas of Biomaterials Science and Engineering Ceramics. He has taught undergraduate and graduate students in India, Belgium, Spain, UK, Slovenia and Nepal. Bikramjit received Government of India’s most coveted science and technology award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2013 for his significant contributions to the field of Biomaterials Science. He is the only Indian from India to receive the ‘Robert L. Coble Award for Young Scholars’, from the American Ceramic Society (2008) and the Richard Brook Award from the European Ceramic Society (2021).