San Diego Doctors Receive Grant to Develop ‘Smart Shoulder’ Implant

San Diego Doctors Receive Grant to Develop ‘Smart Shoulder’ Implant
Emergency sign points to the entrance to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California, on March 23, 2017. Mike Blake/Reuters
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SAN DIEGO—Researchers with Scripps Health, a nonprofit health care system, received a $317,000 grant award from the National Institutes of Health to develop a “smart shoulder” replacement implant, it was announced Dec. 5.

The award will go toward the first phase of research over the next two years at the Shiley Center for Orthopaedic Research and Education at Scripps Clinic on Torrey Pines Mesa.

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