On 20 September last year, Professor Maurilio Marcacci, Head of the Centre for the Functional and Biological Knee Reconstruction, and Professor Elizaveta Kon, specialist at the Centre and Head of the Translational Orthopedics Section, together with Marco Bianchi, scientific advisor of the Veronesi Foundation, were the protagonists of a live Facebook stream dedicated to knee treatments.
The two specialists initially introduced the work of the Centre for Functional and Biological Knee Reconstruction, a highly specialized and deeply involved research center.
Prof. Marcacci pointed out after many years in Bologna: “We arrived in Humanitas last winter with clear ideas about what we would like to do and what we could do. We have always been concerned with technological innovation, both in the mechanical field (new technologies and new devices) and in the field of biological research and regeneration”.
The role of research
Professor Kon added that the Centre is involved in several clinical studies at European and international level and that “This could give our patients – always in a selected and personalized way – access to highly innovative therapies”. She then explained what clinical studies are and how they work and their importance in terms of protecting the therapies that are then proposed.
Prof. Marcacci pointed out that “There is no solution for everything, but there is a personalized solution: each patient has his own problem that can derive from genetic, constitutional, use and traumatic diseases, which must be known in depth before embarking on any treatment”.
Cartilage regeneration
Professor Kon explained that it has been more than twenty years in cartilage regeneration, an aspect that has been particularly at the heart of biomedical research, and that there are various types of treatments that are sewn on the patient, depending on the needs.
There were also several questions from users connected live, which specialists tried to answer.
