Meir Marmor, MD
Medical Director/Advisor 
 

2540 23rd Street, 
Bldg 7, 1st Floor, Rm 1800 
San Francisco, CA 94110
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The Biomechanical Testing Facility (BTF) is part of the Orthopaedic Trauma Institute at the University of California, San Francisco, Orthopedic Department, housed in Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG).

The Biomechanical Testing Facility conducts industry-funded evaluations of orthopaedic medical devices and surgical techniques, our research focuses on integrating experimental biomechanical testing, finite element analysis and clinical outcomes to develop devices and surgical strategies that will improve patient outcomes. 

Our lab also collaborates with other faculty at the Orthopaedic Trauma Institute and UC Berkeley to develop implantable orthopaedic sensors. 

The BTF partners with industry to conduct research in the following areas:
Musculoskeletal disease pathomechanics
Development and evaluation of promising new orthopaedic technologies
Creation of testing standards for cross-product comparisons of medical devices
Biomechanical testing
Material property characterization
Multiaxial testing
Failure analysis
Internal stress analysis
Three-dimensional motion tracking
Medical Imaging
Cadaver Labs

We offer two types of contracts in order to meet your needs:
Service Contracts
Short-term projects that consist of existing IRC experimental protocols. We will execute the experiment and post-process the data on an expedited time schedule.

Research Agreements
Research Agreements are longer term projects with custom-designed experimental protocols. In addition to planning and executing the experiment, we will collaborate with you to interpret and publish the data.

We specialize in:
Comprehensive project planning
Custom experimental and data analysis protocols
Dissemination of results in the scientific community (e.g. journal manuscripts and conference abstracts)