MU Coulter Biomedical Accelerator Program Grant Helps Further Health Care Innovations

The mission of the MU Coulter Biomedical Accelerator Program at the University of Missouri is to increase the capacity and the pace of biomedical innovation by pairing physicians and engineers.

Dr. Ferris Pfeiffer and Dr. James Stannard have been awarded grant funding from the Coulter Biomedical Accelerator Program for the second year in a row. The collaborative research project, “A Tapered and an Anatomically Shaped Osteochondral Allograft System“, hopes to improve the success rates of cartilage transplants. The principal investigators are working on a system that makes it possible to repair large OCD defects with a single allograft. The system will be comprised of cutting guides in clinically relevant sizes, a reaming tool to create the socket and a cutting system to create the anatomical graft.