Amedica Corporation announced the appointment of Giuseppe Pezzotti, Ph.D. to its Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Pezzotti will advise the company on the scientific properties and clinical applications of silicon nitride, and assist Amedica in further developing its technology. In 2009, he was honored with an invited professorship from the Department of Medical Engineering at Osaka University, and since 2010 has been a visiting professor in the Department of Molecular Cell Physiology at the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine.