Regenerative Knee Implant Research

Project Overview

As a researcher at the Columbia Engineering Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Lab, I’m working on the NOVAJoint Project: developing a regenerative knee implant to restore full joint function to patients severely impacted by osteoarthritis (OA).

My Contributions

  1. Mechanical testing of the 3D-printed scaffolds (preparation, hardware setup, performance, data collection, analysis)

  2. Computational modeling of the tibial insert and femur using 3D Slicer, Blender, Meshmixer, and SolidWorks

  3. Create instructions and slide decks to optimize research processes

  4. Run Finite Element Analysis using proprietary software (FEBio)

Computational Modeling: Tibial Insert

Using 3D slicer, we conducted visualization and model the tibial insert of the implant. 3D Slicer is an image computing platform for clinical and biomedical applications using analysis of medical image computing data sets.

Using Blender we reoriented and created a high-fidelty model of the tibial tray

Mesh Mixer was used to smooth the surfaces

SolidWorks for making geometry changes and remodeling

Computational Modeling: Femur