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the great debate 2025

Prof. Justin Cobb served as a Convenor for The Great Debate, a bi-annual meeting held on February 5th and 6th at the Royal Society of Medicine. This two-day meeting focused on contemporary issues in hip and knee arthroplasty, featuring lively debates on various talks and topics.

Kartik presenting at the great debate

Kartik Logishetty and Prof Cobb both presented Research that had been conducted in the MSk Lab at The Great Debate.

omar speaking at the boa conference 2024.j

Our team at the MSk Lab (Omar Musbahi) alongside with Imperial Bioengineering (Richard Van Arkel and Thomas Hall), won the Best Podium Presentation at the British Orthopaedic Association's AI in Orthopaedics 2024 conference. Omar presented “Forecasting Knee Replacement Surgery with Deep Learning."

sliver leaf award

Amidst our quest for scientific breakthroughs, we proudly embrace sustainability. We have successfully achieved the silver LEAF Sustainable Award. Our lab stands as a beacon of innovation, proving that progress and environmental stewardship go hand in hand.

Patients with unilateral hip osteoarthritis demonstrate an asymmetric gait profile pre- op, overloading their non-affected leg. 12 months post- op of a H1 ceramic on ceramic hip resurfacing implant they restore gait function and demonstrate a symmetrical gait profile.

Patients with unilateral hip osteoarthritis demonstrate an asymmetric gait profile pre- op, overloading their non-affected leg. 12 months post- op of a H1 ceramic on ceramic hip resurfacing implant they restore gait function and demonstrate a symmetrical gait profile.

Image of Torch Map Different commercial total knee replacements and patello-femoral replacements are designed with a variety of geometries, which may be closer or further from natural anatomy. We developed software for planning knee surgery that allows the chosen implant to be compared with the native anatomy of the knee. (Simon Harris)

We developed software for planning knee surgery that allows the chosen implant to be compared with the native anatomy of the knee. (Simon Harris)

The design of the patella component of a total knee or patello-femoral replacement is quite simplistic, often just a round button. We developed software that could take a set of nominally healthy patellae and create the ‘average patella’.

Of those tested, after normalising to the mean size, the surfaces were mostly within 2mm of the mean. By comparing the mean cartilage and mean bone, we found the thickest cartilage areas mapped well to the highest contact pressure regions found by other researchers. (Simon Harris)

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Join us in our new home at the stunning Sir Michael Uren Hub building, situated in the heart of Imperial College's White City campus. We have seven state-of-the-art laboratories, already at work driving innovation and discovery.

Peri Acetabular Osteotomy is a procedure to realign the cup of the hip to provide better coverage of the femur and reduce the likelihood of hip dislocation. We have created software that allows a surgeon to plan surgery to change the cup orientation and compute measurements to predict coverage.

Peri Acetabular Osteotomy is a procedure to realign the cup of the hip to provide better coverage of the femur and reduce the likelihood of hip dislocation. We have created software that allows a surgeon to plan surgery to change the cup orientation and compute measurements to predict coverage.

omputer model of a collagen molecule with mutated amino acid sequence (James Rowe) showing the shape of the collagen microfibril,. and the sites where mircrofibrils can stick to other bundles of mircorbrils. those sticky bonds are the molecular basis of the stiffness we feel every morning. By understanding these sites, and how collagen fibrils stick to one another, we are closer to understanding t

Those sticky bonds are the molecular basis of the stiffness we feel every morning. By understanding these sites and how collagen fibrils stick to one another, we are closer to understanding stiffness, which is a substantial part of the ageing process.