Associate Professor Egon Perilli
Associate Professor
College of Science and Engineering
Associate Professor Egon Perilli, Medical Device Research Institute, Flinders University; Affiliate Senior Lecturer, School of Biomedicine, Faculty of Health & Medical Sciences, The Univ. of Adelaide; Honorary Fellow, Dept. of Medicine, Austin Health, The Univ. of Melbourne. 2008-2011: Senior Research Fellow, Bone & Joint Research Lab, Surgical Pathology, SA Pathology, Adelaide. His research is in 2D and 3D quantitative imaging of bone structure and biomaterials combined with biomechanical testing. The main field of research is in osteoporosis and osteoarthritis.
President (2018-2021), Australian & New Zealand Orthopaedic Research Society (ANZORS); 2015-2018 ANZORS Society Secretary.
2018- Council member, International Federation of Musculoskeletal Research Societies (IFMRS).
Instrument leader, Large Volume micro-CT lab Flinders.
He developed his scientific research background in Europe. 2007-2008: Post-Doctoral Researcher at company SkyScan, Kontich, Belgium (micro-CT systems manufacturer, now Bruker micro-CT), in collaboration with Visionlab, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium. 2002-2007: Scientific researcher at Medical Technology Laboratory, Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy, carrying out research in bone micro-CT imaging combined with biomechanical testing.
His research projects involve a number of medical imaging techniques, particularly state of the art micro-CT, both in vitro and in vivo, of bone samples and entire bone segments, on human tissue and animal models. These techniques are used for quantifying bone structure at micro and macro level, density and morphometry. The mechanical strength of the bone is determined via experimental testing, for investigating the relationships between bone structural parameters and mechanical properties.
He is supervisor of bone and joint-related research topics for post-doc, PhD and Honours projects. He is peer-reviewer for several international scientific journals; reviewer for Australian Research Council (ARC), National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Wellcome Trust (UK), Research Foundation Flaanders (Belgium), Dutch Arthritis Foundation (Netherlands).
PhD Bioengineering (Bologna, Italy), MSc Physics (Bologna, Italy)
- 2024 NHMRC Ideas Grant (APP 2037106); $828k, "Adding bite to tooth-mimicking aesthetic multilayer zirconia crowns with emerging digital manufacturing and fracture mechanics techniques", Yin L, Dudley J, Kotoussov A, Khanna A, Perilli E, Rapagna S.
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2024 Defence Innovation Partnership (DIP) Collaborative Research Fund – Round 7 (DIP00003CRF7); $150k, "Sovereign manufacturing reliable defence structures by 3D metal printing and structural health monitoring", Yin L, Kotousov A, Ng A, Ebendorff-Heidelpriem H, Brett M, Harris M, Wallbrink C, Sales A, Perilli E, Rapagna S.
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2019-2023 Australian Research Council (ARC), “Training Centre for Medical Implant Technologies”, $4M (IC180100024), Lee P, Taylor M, Lloyd D, Schaffer G, O'Connor A, Ackland D, Saxby D, Xia K, Reynolds K, Franks G, Carty C, Perilli E.
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Australian Resarch Council (ARC), "Large volume, multi-use micro-CT", 2018, $557k from ARC plus $495k from partner institutions; Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment & Facilities Grant (LIEF; LE180100136), Perilli E, Taylor M, Long JA, Tang Y, Sammut K, Cazzolato B, Xie Z, Seymour R, Ozbakkaloglu T, Ranjitkar S, Hutchinson MN.
- Major Equipment grant, 2016, $61k, Flinders University (Reynolds KJ, Perilli E, Ryan M, Martelli S), acquisition of Digital Volume Correlation software (DVC, DaVis, LaVision, Germany).
- Arthritis Australia, Project Grant, 2015, Crotti T, Dharmapatni A, Gibson R, Perilli E.
- Catalyst Research Grant, Premier's Research and Industry Fund, 2014-2015, Adelaide, SA. Perilli E.
- Faculty of Science and Engineering Collaborative Research Grant, Flinders University, 2014. Perilli E, Harmer SL, Kirkbride P.
- South Australia - Emilia Romagna Research Collaboration Grant (Bone and Joints), Government of SA, 2014-2015. Reynolds KJ, Perilli E, Taylor M, Costi JJ.
- Arthritis Australia-Zimmer Australia, Grant in Aid, 2013-2014, Perilli E, Thewlis D, Reynolds KJ.
- AMGEN-GSK, Osteoporosis Australia-ANZBMS Clinical Grant Program 2012. Perilli E.
- Vice-Chancellor Award for Early Career Researchers 2012, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA.
- Finalist best oral presentation 2012, Australian and New Zealand Orthopaedic Research Society, Perth, WA. Perilli E.
- Early Career Researcher Award 2011, 1st prize, Australian and New Zealand Orthopaedic Research Society, Brisbane, QLD. Perilli E.
- Lead, Engineered Systems Research Section at Flinders
- Supervisor and instrument leader of the Micro-CT imaging laboratory in Flinders University. See video on 7 News.
- Visit Flinders Large-Volume Micro-CT imaging laboratory.
- Facilities Lead, Medical Device Resarch Institute
Professional Memberships:
- Australian & New Zealand Orthopaedic Research Society, ANZORS, Immediate-past President (2021-2023), President (2018-2021), Society Secretary (2015-2018). Co-chair of the annual meetings 2014 - 2022
- International Combined Orthopaedic Research Societies (ICORS), Co-chair of the 2025 triennial meeting, first time to be held in southern hemisphere ICORS 2025
- International Federation of Musculoskeletal Research Societies, IFMRS, Council Member
- Australian & New Zealand Society of Biomechanics, ANZSB, Member, Co-chair of the 2021 Society Meeting ABC12
- Bone Health Foundation (Australia), Research Advisory Panel, Member.
- European Society of Biomechanics, ESB, Member
- International Society of Biomechanics, ISB, Member
- European Society of Biomechanics, Italian Chapter, ESB-ITA, Member
- Forum in Bone and Mineral Research (Italy), Member
- Australian & New Zealand Bone & Mineral Society, ANZBMS, Member
- Australian Society for Medical Research, ASMR, Member
- Association for Research between Italy and Australia, SA-branch, ARIA-SA, Member
- Adelaide Bone Group, Committee member, www.adelaidebonegroup.org, Secretary
- Images/Imaging
- Medical research
- Orthopaedics
- Osteoporosis
- Tomography
- Bone and joint biomechanics
ARC Centre for Medical Implant Technologies 2020 Symposium
Sophie, my PhD student, ESB 2020 award finals (YouTube, go 35:43)
Lauren, my PhD student, ToScA 2020 (video)
My PhD students supervision-video
Thomas McSkimming (Flinders, Micro-X, current), Princip. superv. A/Prof Egon Perilli, co-s. Prof Karen Reynolds.
Lauren Wearne (Flinders, completed 2024) Quantifying press-fit tibial trays and primary stability. Princip.superv. A/Prof Egon Perilli; co-s. Prof Mark Taylor.
Marco G. Branni (QUT, completed 2023) Human femur micromechanics. Princ.s. A/Prof Saulo Martelli; co-s. A/Prof Egon Perilli, Prof Mark Taylor
Sophie Rapagna (Flinders, completed 2021) Lower limb bone microarchitecture and biomechanics. Princ.s. A/Prof Egon Perilli; co-s. Prof Karen Reynolds.
Tyra Lange (Flinders, current) Fracture fixation with screw insertion, Princ.s. Prof Karen Reynolds, co-s. A/Prof Egon Perilli, A/Prof John Costi
Bonnie Williams (The U. of Adelaide, completed 2019) Pharmacological modulation of apoptosis and autophagy in an inflammatory arthritis mouse model. Princ. s. A/Prof Tania Crotti (The U. of Adelaide); co-s. A/Prof Egon Perilli.
Bryant Roberts (Flinders, completed 2017) In vivo knee joint loads and tibial bone microarchitecture in knee osteoarthritis. Princ.s. Dr Egon Perilli; co-s. Prof Karen Reynolds, A/Prof Dominic Thewlis (The U. of Adelaide).
Rosidah Ab-Lazid (Flinders, completed 2016) Cancellous screw pullout strength in human femoral heads. Princ.s. Prof Karen Reynolds; co-s. Dr Egon Perilli, A/Prof John Costi.
ORCID: 0000-0002-2679-8394
Pubmed, GoogleScholar, ResearchGate
3D micro-CT image of a human distal humerus; sagittal cut (jpg)
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