Claudia Di Bella, MD PhD FRACS FAOrthA

Dr Claudia Di Bella is an academic orthopaedic surgeon highly specialised in musculoskeletal oncology, advanced robotic assisted surgery and 3D printing.

Dr Di Bella is the leader of the Cartilage Regeneration Program of Research at the University of Melbourne (Australia), centred over the use of advanced 3D printing technologies, including surgical 3D bioprinting, robotics and stem cells for the regeneration of the musculoskeletal system. Dr Di Bella has recently received the prestigious Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Senior Lecturer Fellowship and won the Australian and New Zealand Orthopaedic Research Society (ANZORS) Early Career Award. Dr Di Bella has led her team to successfully secure more than 15 national peer reviewed grants, reinforced and strengthened national and international collaboration with key players in the field, and strongly contributed to the advances of the Biofab3D, the first Australian biofabrication hub embedded in the hospital setting. The successes of Dr Di Bella’s team have been recently recognised internationally (winner of the Orthoregeneration Award for the most innovative work in orthoregeneration) and nationally (Finalist at the prestigious NSW Eureka prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research), and showcased by national media such as ABC news and National Geographic.

Dr Di Bella is very passionate about gender equality in STEM-M, and for this reason she is a mentor in the academic surgery program of the University of Melbourne as well as a mentor for women in medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital.