Großschmidt Lab

Research Focus

• Biomaterial Research
• Basic research concerning the histology of bone and teeth
• Historic Osteology
• Palaeopathology
• Bioarcheology
  
  

Main Objectives

• Analysis and optimisation of bone substitute materials
• Improving integration and load capacity of implants and study of their osseointegrative properties
• Increasing bone regeneration and so called osseointegration by the application of growth factors and other adjuvants.
• Study of skeletons from archaeological excavations. Reconstruction of living conditions, determination of sex and age at death, palaeodemography.
• Detailed analysis of diseases that manifest themselves in archaeological skeletal material: e.g. Syphilis, fractures, head injuries, degenerative joint diseases.
• Production of undecalcified thin ground sections from hard tissues and biomaterials.