The mission of the Laboratorio di Tecnologia Medica (Medical Technology Laboratory) is to develop, validate and transfer the clinical practice every innovative technology that might improve the prevention, the diagnosis, the treatment, the monitoring, or the rehabilitation of musculoskeletal diseases. the lab is directed by Prof Marco Viceconti, and it is part of the Instituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, a major orthopaedic research hospital based in Bologna, Italy. The lab has a staff of approximately 40 people including senior and junior researchers, as well as graduate and undergraduate students. They are organised in five research units, each leaded by a Senior Researcher. The lab forms with the Orthopaedic-Traumatology and Prosthetic surgery and revisions of hip and knee implants a clinical/research unit.