PhD Studentship: Patient-Specific Wrist Implants

Eligibility: UK Applicants only

Funding

School of Mechanical Engineering Studentship offering the award of full academic fees, together with a tax-free maintenance grant of £19,237 per year for 3.5 years.

Lead Supervisor: Dr Marlene Mengoni –

Co-supervisor name: Professor Sophie Williams –

Project summary

A funded PhD is available to develop patient-specific evaluation of custom wrist repairs, in collaboration with industry partner Attenborough Medical.

In this PhD project, you will access unique computational and experimental facilities and know-how from the institute of Medical and Biological Engineering at Leeds. You will also work in close collaboration with Attenborough Medical, a leading company for patient-specific implants in the UK, located in Nottingham.

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