The goal of the IRC is to foster, enhance, and protect a unified, multi-institutional collection of retrieved orthopedic, spine, and cardiovascular implants and peri-implant tissue as a resource for academic research.
The goals of the Medical PEEK Lexicon are to highlight recent developments in clinically relevant PEEK research and to stimulate hypothesis-driven investigations related to medical grade polyaryletherketones.
The Society for Biomaterials is the publisher of the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research (JBMR) and Applied Biomaterials Members of the SFB can also receive discounted subscriptions to the Elsevier publication, Biomaterials. UHMWPE-related papers frequently appear in JBMR, JBMR Applied, and Biomaterials.
ORS Members can access the entire abstracts. The ORS is the publisher of the Journal of Orthopedic Research (JOR), in which several UHMWPE-related papers have appeared.
Committee F04 on Medical and Surgical Materials and Devices develops national standards for UHMWPE used in medical devices.
Technical Committee 150 (ISO TC 150), Implants for Surgery, develops international standards for UHMWPE used in medical devices.
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