


Duration: 2005 – 2008
There are roughly 1 million cases in the USA and ½ million in EU of high skeletal defects a year. All of these cases require bone-graft procedures to achieve union, each of which requires the surgeon to determine the type of graft material to be use. The toughest challenge appears when the size of the defect is too big and the reconstruction of this defect requires a bone graft capable of supplying similar physical properties and behavior to the bone being substituted. Unfortunately at this moment commercial scaffolds can not satisfy the following issues:
Based on these basic needs to provide an ideal scaffold, the NANOBIOCOM project aims at establishing the scientific and technological basis for the development new ‘intelligent’ composite scaffold for bone tissue repair and regeneration with the following issues:
NANOBIOCOM focuses on the development of an intelligent material with the following challenges:
The main output of NANOBIOCOM project will be:
The main objectives proposed are: