This is the private website of Bergita Ganse, the professor for Innovative Implant Development (Fracture Healing) at Saarland University in Germany and visiting professor at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK, an Orthopaedic Surgeon and a Physiologist. Her main fields of research are the musculoskeletal system in spaceflight, immobilization and ageing, as well as bone fractures and biomechanics.
Recent highlights:
We’ve published a review paper on joint cartilage in long-duration spaceflight in the journal Biomedicines [IF 4.757]
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Our review paper on active implants for fracture treatment was published in the journal Acta Biomaterialia [IF 10.633]
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ESA has selected out proposal for a research project that studies muscle and cartilage changes in over-winterers on Concordia station, Antarctica. CLICK HERE
Contact: bergita.ganse (at) uks.eu
Find the website of the department at Saarland University HERE.