Professor Max Ortiz Catalán joined the Bionics Institute in June this year to lead research into ground-breaking bionic limb technologies as Head of Neural Prosthetics Research.
A world leader in this field, Professor Ortiz Catalán has developed bionic limb technology that integrates with the remaining bone, nerves and muscles of a patient’s residual limb and enables thought-controlled movement similar to a biological limb.
Founder and Director of the Center for Bionics and Pain Research (CBPR) in Sweden, Professor Ortiz Catalán is also a full Professor of Bionics at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The Bionics Institute and CBPR are now working closely together on the mission to develop and clinically implement technologies to eliminate disability and pain due to sensorimotor impairment.
Improving quality of life for people living with limb amputation
In 2017, more than 58 million people were living with limb amputation worldwide.
Conventional approaches to attaching prosthetics to the human body result in artificial limbs that can cause pain and discomfot and are difficult to control.
Source: The Current Bionic Isitute Newsletter Spring 23
