35. PATRICK DONDL ♂
Information acquired: 2025
PATRICK DONDL is an academic who published a paper in 2019 entitled Shape design of a polymer microstructure for bones. PATRICK DONDL published this work as part of a team: Dondl, Patrick. Here is a description of this work: We consider a shape optimization problem related to the design of polymer scaffolds for bone tissue engineering. Globally, bone loss due to trauma, osteoporosis, or osteosarcoma comprises a major reason for disability. To this day, autograft, i.e., a graft of bone tissue from a different place in the same body, remains the gold standard for large scale bone loss. This is despite major issues, for example donor site morbidity and limited availability. An ideal scaffold to be implanted in place of lost bone tissue must satisfy a number of different criteria, apart from the requirement of biocompatibility. It should be bioresorbable, so that no foreign objects remain after the regeneration time. In particular, however, during the regeneration time, it should provide adequate mechanical stability, while not preventing osteogenesis..