The Enid Linder Foundation has pledged £54,000 to the University’s Centre for Orthopaedic Biomechanics, the latest show of their continued support to the Centre.
The Centre, headed by Professor Tony Miles, is located within the University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and operates in collaboration with other universities. It specialises in bringing together research linking engineering and clinical orthopaedics in fields such as joint replacements, bone graft materials and methods, and fracture healing.
The Enid Linder Foundation, a charity supporting medical education and research, has a long history of support for the Centre. This latest pledge follows the Foundation’s recent significant contribution towards a £60,000 fund for an additional PhD Scholarship at the Centre, making the single largest contribution to the campaign.
The £54,000 will fund several activities at the Centre. It will part-fund a further PhD Scholarship, part-fund a Research Officer position and support a ‘patient functional evaluation facility’, which will aim to radically improve patient diagnosis. Accurate diagnosis can provide life-changing results. Victoria Wells, who led the recent PhD Scholarship campaign, truly understands the need to support this area of research; she is finally enjoying a new lease of life following a double hip replacement after having suffered since birth with two misdiagnosed dislocated hips. This funding will enable the Centre to continue their groundbreaking research and help more people like Victoria.
Professor of Biomechanics Tony Miles said, “The support from the Enid Linder Foundation has been of immense value to our pursuit of Orthopaedic research and on behalf of the University of Bath and the Centre for Orthopaedic Biomechanics I would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Trustees of the Enid Linder Foundation.”
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