JointMedica receive Continuity Support Grant for current Innovate UK funded projects
JointMedica receive Continuity Support Grant for current Innovate UK funded projects
JointMedica are set to benefit from a Continuity Support package, providing businesses with help to support projects which have been delayed and affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Monies were made available in continuity grants to SMEs and third sector organisations who are existing Innovate UK award holders to ensure the success and delivery of new innovation during the COVID-19 epidemic.
Terence Smith, Managing Director of JointMedica commented;
We are eternally grateful to the innovate UK organisation for their continued support of our development technologies. JointMedica can now continue with our work, striving towards our goals.
For further information visit www.innovateuk.gov.uk
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03 Aug 2020
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28 Nov 2019
Employee Spotlight - Dee Foster
We are introducing an 'Employee Spotlight' series which aims to highlight the talented individuals who work here. We’ll be featuring regular interviews here on our website and on our social accounts.
For this Employee Spotlight feature we spoke to Dee Foster who is our Customer Service Advisor
03 Sep 2019
Patient Case Study Update - Bob Harris
In November 2017, Jointmedica Interviewed Bob Harris, a BKR recipient, who at the time was 3 months post-op and enjoying a much better quality of life.
We have recently caught up with Bob, and we are delighted to say that he is still enjoying life with his new knee and it has allowed him to get back an active lifestyle.
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Jointmedica were recently featured as a customer case study by ALPHACAM which involved the visit of a film crew who interviewed Roger Ashton, our Technical Director, about how a patient’s CT scan is used to create individually tailored medical implants using ALPHACAM's multi-axis milling and turning operations created for the Brother Speedio M140X2 CNC machine.
27 May 2019
Student Spotlight Update - Lewis Woolin
We have recently caught up with Lewis Woolin, who is a PHD student at Newcastle University working alongside Jointmedica, looking into the development of a new generation of hip replacement. Lewis discusses his work so far and his recent achievements at the annual internal mechanical engineering conference.
17 Jan 2019
The future of Hip Resurfacing
Jointmedica are delighted to read a recent interview with Derek McMinn and Ronan Treacy in the latest edition of Orthopaedic Product News, where they outline new challenges and key developments they have been involved with since the last interview with this publication in 2010.