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Supervision, execution, and further development of CartiONE: a single-step within-OR cell service aimed at articular cartilage repair. With CartiONE the orthopaedic surgeon can seed any commercially available scaffold with a mixture of autologous primary chondrocytes and mononuclear bone-marrow cells obtained from the patient's own articular cartilage and bone-marrow aspirate in the operating room.

Performing research to further shorten and smoothen the CellCoTec Cell Service products, which are aimed at one-step repair of articular cartilage in the knee. With CellCoTec's Cell Service the orthopaedic surgeon is given the opportunity to implant a mix of autologous chondrocytes and bone-marrow cells freshly harvested in the operating room. The cells are isolated within the hour, thereby eliminating the need of biopsy transport to and from a laboratory and six to eight weeks of expensive cell culture.The rapidly isolated chondrocytes & bone-marrow cells may be seeded on any carrier of the surgeon's choosing.CellCoTec's INSTRUCT promotes regeneration of hyaline cartilage in affected knee joints by combining the patient's own cartilage and bone-marrow cells with a load-bearing scaffold - all within a single surgical procedure.Additional research focusses on using the patient's own cartilage and bone-marrow cells to treat broken-down cartilage in an osteoarthritic joint, in which case cartilage, bone, synovium, and synovial fluid mostly are in an inflammated state.Also see: www.cellcotec.com

Daily care of people with both visual and mental impairments.

* teaching biology and "nature, life & technology"* supervising "profile projects" of students

* PhD research in the field of bone physiology

* student administration* front office service