SimOSpine is an innovative digital health technology to prevent mechanical complications in corrective spine surgeries (CSS), the prevalence of which has largely increased in adults with spine deformities in the last five years. SimOSpine is expected to: reduce healthcare burdens by minimising the need for spine revision surgeries; enhance the safety and quality of life of CSS patients; promote the digital transformation of healthcare for improved predictive & personalized medicine.

SimOSpine offers quantitative biomechanical assessments of the risk of mechanical failure while avoiding common barriers to patient-specific biomechanical modelling. Its assets include the planning and prognosis of thoracolumbar spine surgery through statistical shape (SSM) and finite element (FEM) modelling & simulations (CM&S), spine shape customization based on sagittal balance metrics from routine clinical evaluations, and personalised risk index assessments of early mechanical failure of the surgery.

Preliminary data suggests that SimOSpine's surgical prognosis capability surpasses that of current clinical indexes, especially in complex clinical cases. It enables spine surgeons to virtually adjust the spine curvature before surgery, to evaluate and plan different CSS strategies and instrumentations. It can be used both as a product and a service, benefiting spine surgeons, medical imaging, orthopaedic companies, and spine surgery training centres.

The project shall push forward SimOSpine from TRL 4 to TRL 6. It combines human expertise from various fields, and its key milestones include dissemination, Intellectual Property strategy, risk mitigation for partner engagement, functional prototyping, preclinical validation, and initial implementation of a well-defined business model.

For this purpose, a position between January 1st 2024 and December 32st 2024 (12 months) will be supported. The main responsibility for this position will be to advance SimOSpine development, with a specific focus on generating resources that can further support it, including the maintenance of this position.