2011-05-19 15:52 GöteborgBIO GöteborgBIO congratulates Professor Per-Ingvar Brånemark, the winner of the European Inventor Award 2011 in the category "Lifetime Achievement". During half-a-century, he has been working with how titanium collaborates with biological tissue, thus implanting hope into thousands of people in the world.
2011-03-09 12:31 GöteborgBIO Professor Per-Ingvar Brånemark, the father of osseointegration, has been nominated for European Inventor Award 2011 in the category "Lifetime achievement".
2010-09-02 14:55 GöteborgBIO A study is being presented today that for the first time ever shows the result of treatment with osseointegrated prostheses of titanium implants in patients with amputated femurs. The study shows that this treatment gives nine out of ten patients improved function and a better quality of life. These findings emerge from research by the Sahlgrenska Academy/Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg.