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Building a Revolutionary Knee Implant | Virpi & Anne-Marie, Askel Healthcare

  • OrthopedicsCrowdfunding
  • May 28, 2026

Askel Healthcare turned the COPLA Implant for treating knee cartilage defects from an academic research project to an orthopedic innovation currently going through pilot clinical studies.

We sat down with Virpi Muhonen and Anne-Marie Haaparanta to discuss their journey, how they turned their crowdfunding campaign into success, what are the future plans for the Class III device, and more.

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