Philipp Honigmann
2025
2024
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Philipp Honigmann
Philipp Honigmann is a hand and general surgeon who heads the Hand and Peripheral Nerve Surgery unit at the Cantonal Hospital Basel. He is also the co-leader of the Swiss Medical Additive Manufacturing Research Group (Swiss MAM) at the University of Basel’s Department of Biomedical Engineering. Honigmann additionally leads the 3D Print Lab at the Cantonal Hospital Baselland’s Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology. His expertise lies in reconstructive hand surgery, particularly carpal surgery, utilizing patient-specific 3D-printed guides and prosthetics. Honigmann holds a patent for a patient-specific Scaphoid replacement. His research interests focus on the use of 3D-printed applications in hand surgery and 4D-CT analysis of carpal kinematics post-carpal bone replacement in collaboration with the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics at the Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam.