05/10/2022

The Mimics Innovation Awards celebrates cutting-edge work by early-stage researchers using Materialise software to advance personalization in health care. The awards praise those driving the shift towards mass personalization by transforming healthcare towards delivering truly individual medicine, at scale, and at an affordable cost.

Nasim Golafshan pursued her Ph. D in biofabrication and designing bone implants, under the support of the Malda Lab. With her research, she strives to make surgical treatments for hip dysplasia, one of the main causes of hip osteoarthritis, less invasive and more durable using a personalized, 3D-printed, regenerative hip implant.