Group 6 - Clinical evaluation of materials and personalized implant development
Research directions:
Clinical studies on biomaterials for bone regeneration using 3D planning and printing technologies. Main fields- maxillofacial surgery, periodontology, endodontics.
Group leader: Dr. Laura Neimane
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5411-5810
Dr.Laura Neimane, asoc. professor, Head of Maxillofacial Radiology department RSU Institute of Stomatology. Received dentist diploma at Dentistry Faculty at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Master’s Degree in Dentomaxillofacial Radiology in King’s College, UK; Radiologist specialist diploma in University of Latvia; defeated PhD theses on use of biomaterials in atrophic maxillary bone in Riga Stradins University. She is teaching and lecturing for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Fields of expertise:
- Testing and evaluating 3D planning programmes and printers
- Testing of radiology and maxilla facial surgery equipmens
- 3D surgery planning, 3D printing of anatomical models, guides and implants
- design of clinical studies
- exploratory and inferential analysis of research data
- clinical data modelling
- data processing for research repository in FAIR format, and data management plan protocols
BBCE project´s main objective is to establish a joint Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence for advanced biomaterials development based on the long-term strategic cooperation between AO Research Institute Davos, Switzerland (ARI) and Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany (FAU) on the one hand and RTU RBIDC, LIOS, RSU and RSU IS on the other hand.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 857287