Having already won a British Engineering Excellence Award in 2010, an artificial shoulder joint which is based on Newcastle University research has just received another high profile award. At this year’s Medilink Healthcare Business awards held at Sheffield Hallam University and sponsored by Design Futures, the VAIOS shoulder won the Innovation Award.
The VAIOS (Versatile Anatomic and Inverse Optimised Stable) shoulder was designed in partnership between Newcastle University, Joint Replacement Instrumentation (JRI) Limited and Professor Angus Wallace, a shoulder surgeon based at Nottingham University. The partnership was under the auspices of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP).
The Newcastle team included Professor Garth Johnson, Dr Andreas Kontaxis and Dr Tom Joyce, all from the School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering. The KTP Associate who did much of the work on the VAIOS shoulder was Mr Ian Flatters, a graduate of the School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering.
For further information contact thomas.joyce@ncl.ac.uk.
published on: 16th November 2011