Professor Justin Cobb
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Independent Data Monitoring Committee
Role: Chair
Justin graduated from Magdalen College Oxford in 1982. After 15 years as a consultant at UCLH, he joined Imperial as chair of orthopaedics in 2005. He is involved in the OsteoArthritis Centre, funded by an £11m grant from the Wellcome Trust and EPSRC. Together with Alison McGregor, he leads a group of more than 25 surgeons, physios, scientists and engineers who work on the same floor as the orthopaedic inpatient ward, translating their benchtop findings straight to the bedside and operating theatre of patients with musculoskeletal problems. His principal resarch interests are in the fields of 3D planning and 3D printing of patient matched instrumentation and robotics to ensure accuracy, precision and cost effectiveness in joint surgery.