Humboldt meets Leibniz

The event will be dedicated to current research issues in biomedical engineering and implant research. Extensive clinical and interdisciplinary scientific collaborations within the Hearing4All Cluster of Excellence and the Collaborative Research Centre “Safety Integrated and Infection Reactive Implants (SIIRI)” coupled with a unique interdisciplinary, trans-institutional infrastructure at the Lower Saxony Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Implant Research and Development (NIFE) have resulted in Hannover becoming a renowned and internationally visible scientific location for innovative implant research in recent years.

Implants are indispensable for replacing organs or tissues in many medical disciplines. In view of demographic developments, the worldwide demand for medical implants will grow steadily in the future, as will the range of medical disciplines offering therapies with implantable devices. However, the implant systems available today have significant shortcomings in terms of lifelong function, and none of the currently available products in the various medical fields guarantees lifelong durability.

Premature implant failures often result in disability or reduced life expectancy for patients. This situation represents one of the greatest challenges of modern medicine and highlights the need to initiate interdisciplinary research to produce lifelong implant-patient synergy.