Bioresorbable polymers for orthopedic applications

Overview

To encourage faster bone healing with orthopedic medical devices, bioresorbable polymers are engineered to have mechanical properties to match the natural bone and minimize stress shielding. For some bone fixation medical devices such as interference screws, suture anchors and fracture plates, composite materials with osteoconductive properties can provide the perfect biomaterial solution. For other challenging applications where mechanical strength must be combined with rapid degradation, a new platform of PLA-PEG copolymers represent an attractive opportunity. Evonik experts provided an overview of the bioresorbable portfolio for various medical device applications that can also be tailored to application needs. Topics include:

Key polymer property requirements for orthopedic devices
The use of osteoconductive composites with bone fixation devices
PLA-PEG copolymers for applications that require rapid degradation
Custom polymers and application services

Experts featuring this session

Balaji Prabhu
Director Strategic Marketing Medical Device Solutions
Evonik Health Care
Vita

Balaji Prabhu is the Director of Strategic Marketing, Medical Device Solutions at Evonik. He is responsible for managing strategic growth of the Medical Device Biomaterials portfolio. Formerly as Director of Innovation, Balaji was one of the key contributors in the competency building for the Medical Device Competence Center (MDCC) in Birmingham, Alabama which is also the 3D printing Center of Excellence for bioresorbable polymers. Balaji has more than 15 years diverse experience in medical device and biomaterials space in various leadership roles from concept to commercialization. He holds graduate degrees in Materials Science Engineering, Executive Technology Management, and an Executive MBA in Innovation & Technology Management.

Dr. Cécile Boudot
Head of Application Technology EMEA
Evonik Health Care
Vita

Dr. Cécile Boudot is head of the EMEA Application Technology team at Evonik Health Care in Darmstadt, Germany.

In this role she is responsible for technical consultancy for pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and medical devices customers in the EMEA region with a focus on EUDRAGIT^®, EUDRAGUARD^® and RESOMER^® products.

Cécile holds a diploma in mechanical engineering from Arts et Métiers ParisTech in France and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.She then completed a Ph.D. in medical and technical engineering at the Technical University of Munich in Germany.

Cécile joined Evonik in 2017 as lead of the Medical Devices Laboratory in Darmstadt, where she was responsible for technical customer support, customer projects and several product launches for the medical devices market. She has since taken over the additional responsibility for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical applications.

Cécile is a regular speaker at international conferences and is author of several publications.

Related webinars in this series

Recent advances in biomaterials are helping to enhance the safety, biocompatibility and performance of implantable medical devices across a range of application areas, and also accelerate speed to market. As a global leader for bioresorbable polymers, surface modification technologies and application services, we hosted a special webinar series featuring some key opinion leaders.

Entitled “Biomaterial solutions for implantable medical device applications”, the series covered a range of topics that are of growing interest to medical device companies across application areas including orthopedics, wound healing and cardiovascular care. Each live webinar was short, focused and gave participants an opportunity to ask questions directly to our experts.

Other webinars which were part of the series are:

Bioresorbable polymers for 3D printing medical device applications
June 2, 10 a.m. EDT / 4 p.m. CEST
Surface modification technologies to reduce thrombosis and prevent biofouling
June 9, 10 a.m. EDT / 4 p.m. CEST
Use of extrusion for processing of bioresorbable medical devices
June 16, 10 a.m. EDT / 4 p.m. CEST
Bioresorbable polymers for medical textile applications
June 23, 10 a.m. EDT / 4 p.m. CEST
Bioresorbable polymers for orthopedic applications
June 30, 10 a.m. EDT / 4 p.m. CEST