Monika Budnicka, PhD student at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology, has created a revolutionary bone implant. The solution is a synthetic substitute for spongy bone, the very inner part of the skeleton fragment. It is a kind of scaffolding that is supposed to help in the regeneration of bones after serious damage, for example after cancer.

– The material we have developed is biodegradable and resilient. It can also be cut directly in the operating room. It is also very light – explains Monika Budnicka.

Dr Agnieszka Gadomska-Gajadhur, leader of the project explains that before in this type of surgery, a bone taken from another deceased person was used. At the moment, no one produces such an implant.