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Medical Advisory Board
A world-class Medical Advisory Board guides OM’s pre-clinical and clinical programs. The Company’s medical advisors include:
Scientific Advisory Board
The Company’s Scientific Advisory Board brings together some of the pioneers and leading innovators in the fields of biomaterials and regenerative medicine:
Professor Neil Rushton - Director of the Orthopaedic Research Unit
Professor Rushton is the Director of the Orthopaedic Research Unit at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.His clinical interests lie in arthroplasty of the hip and knee joint and the development of bone graft substitutes and materials for articular cartilage repair. His active involvement with research into the pathogenesis of implants over the last twenty-five years has resulted in the publication of over 100 papers and books in clinical and experimental orthopaedic surgery.
Prof. Rushton is an Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, a Fellow of Magdalene College, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. He is Emeritus Deputy Editor (Research) of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and Past President of the European Orthopaedic Research Society. He is also joint inventor of a new hip system that is now marketed by Stryker.
Professor László Hangody - Clinical Professor at the Semmelweis Medical School Budapest
László Hangody, MD, PhD, DSc, is a Clinical Professor at the Semmelweis Medical School Budapest, Hungary. He is also a Senior Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon in the Orthopaedic and Trauma Department at Uzsoki Hospital, and Senior Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon at the Sanitas Private Clinic, also in Budapest.
Dr. Hangody’s research focuses primarily on the basic science of cartilage repair, revision surgery of anterior cruciate ligament deficient knees, and posterior and anterior interbody fusion. He has written a number of chapters and articles for the medical press and has been an invited lecturer at over 100 international scientific meetings. In addition, he serves on the editorial boards of The Knee; Endoscopy and Minimal Invasive Therapy and Arthroplasty, Arthroscopic Cerrahi. He is an instructor of the PhD program of the Semmelweis Medical School and also participates in the PhD program of Debrecen Medical School.
Dr. Hangody is the president of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society and a member of the executive boards of the Hungarian Arthroscopic Society and the Hungarian Trauma Society. He is a member of the Board at Large of the European Society for Sports Medicine, Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy and a member of the executive board of the International Cartilage Repair Society. To conclude, Dr. Hangody is also an international affiliate member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the ISAKOS and the SICOT.
Dr Anthony Miniaci - Executive Director of Cleveland Clinic Sports Health
Anthony Miniaci, MD, is the Executive Director of Cleveland Clinic Sports Health. His specialty interests include shoulder reconstruction, knee reconstruction and cartilage resurfacing.
An orthopaedic surgeon from Toronto, Canada, he was a full professor at the University of Toronto. Dr. Miniaci also has belonged or served on the numerous Committees of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine; American Shoulder and Elbow Society; Arthroscopy Association of North America; International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine; and the Canadian Orthopaedic Association.
Dr. Miniaci was Team Physician for the London Tigers Baseball Club from 1990 to 1993, and he has been an Orthopaedic Consultant to the Toronto Blue Jays since 1995. He has also worked as a consultant to the National Hockey League Players Association. In his current capacity, Dr. Miniaci is the Head Team Physician for the Cleveland Browns Football Club.
Professor William Bonfield
Professor William Bonfield is Professor of Medical Materials at the University of Cambridge and a co-founder of Orthomimetics. Professor Bonfield's pioneering contributions to the field of medical materials have been internationally recognised with the Fellowship of Engineering Prince Phillip Gold Medal, recognition as a Fellow of the Royal Society, and appointment as Commander of the British Empire (CBE). Professor Bonfield currently holds directorships with ApaTech and Abonetics 2000 and currently sits on the Scientific Advisory Boards of Smith & Nephew, Ranier Technology, and Biocompatibles International.
Professor Ioannis Yannas
Professor Yannas is Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Biological Engineering and Health Sciences & Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research in the field of tissue and organ regeneration has resulted in more than 20 patents and patent applications and garnered Professor Yannas numerous distinctions. These include a Fellowship in Biomaterials Science and Engineering from the Society for Biomaterials, the Doolittle Award from the American Chemical Society and selection for Technology Magazine's Technology 100. Professor Yannas is a co-founder of Orthomimetics.
Professor Lorna Gibson
Professor Gibson is Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a co-founder of Orthomimetics. After receiving a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1981, she spent two years as an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. In 1984 Lorna moved to MIT, where she has received numerous honours and awards. Author of two seminal texts in the field of mechanics of cellular solids, she is arguably the world's foremost expert in the mechanical behaviour of materials with complex cellular structures, such as cork, wood and bone. She has also consulted for some of the world's top technology-based organisations, including NASA.
Professor Fergal O'Brien
Professor Fergal O’Brien is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland and Principal Investigator in the Centre for Bioengineering in Trinity College Dublin. His research in the areas of tissue engineering and biomechanics of musculoskeletal tissues has garnered him numerous distinctions, including the President of Ireland Young Researcher Award from Science Foundation Ireland and the 2005 Chartered Engineer of the Year from Engineers Ireland. Professor O’Brien holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin, and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School. Professor O’Brien is a Chartered Engineer and is Associate Editor (Tissue Engineering) of the Journal of Mechanical Behaviour of Biomedical Materials.
Dr Brendan Harley
Dr Brendan Harley, a co-founder of Orthomimetics, is currently a post-doctoral research associate in stem cell biology at Children's Hospital in Boston. Dr Harley's research in the areas of fabrication, characterisation, and mechanics of biomaterials and quantification of cell-biomaterial interactions has made him one of the rising academic stars of the biomedical engineering field. Dr Harley received his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also holds a MSc from MIT and a BSc from Harvard University. Dr Harley will be assuming the post of Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and as a faculty member of the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois.