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Research Areas
Orthopedic Engineering
Orthopedic Engineering combines principles of tissue engineering, cell biology, and biomechanics to generate new knowledge of bone and soft tissue biology and develop novel therapies to treat musculoskeletal disease.
This program seeks to understand the mechanical and material properties of bone and soft tissues (muscle, cartilage) and to exploit biomaterial and cellular processes to mediate injury responses and promote regeneration. Computational models play a significant role in the design of and development of new experimental methods and protocols.
Primary Faculty
Lori Setton
Chair and Professor
Combines methods of engineering and biology to regulate disc and cartilage health and healing
Combines methods of engineering and biology to regulate disc and cartilage health and healing
Nathaniel Huebsch
Assistant Professor
Focuses on basic & translational stem cell mechanobiology
Focuses on basic & translational stem cell mechanobiology
Affiliate Faculty
Guy Genin - Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Interfaces and adhesion in physiology and nature; optical strain analysis; continuum mechanics; viscoelasticity
Farshid Guilak - Orthopaedic Surgery
biomechanics, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, osteoarthritis, synthetic biology, stem cells, mechanobiology, mechanotransduction, cell mechanics
Michael Harris - Physical Therapy
Whole Body & Joint-level Orthopaedic Biomechanics
Spencer Lake - Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Orthopedic, soft tissues, tendon/ligament, biomechanics, structure-function
Audrey McAlinden - Orthopaedic Surgery
cartilage engineering, chondrocytes, stem cells, osteoarthritis, microRNAs, long non-coding RNAs, growth factors
Gretchen Meyer - Physical Therapy
Skeletal Muscle Physiology, Adipose Signaling, Regeneration, Injury
W. Zachary Ray, MD - Neurosurgery
neuroprosthetics, resorbable electronics, nerve regeneration, spinal cord injury
Brenton Pennicooke - Neurological Surgery
machine learning, artificial intelligence, patient-user interface, predictive analytics, causal inference, patient outcomes, risk stratification, data science, applied mathematics, spine surgery, spine disease
Erica Scheller - Internal Medicine - Bone & Mineral Diseases
diabetes, fracture risk, advanced imaging, neurobiology, metabolic disease, bone regeneration, biosensors
Jie Shen - Internal Medicine - Orthopaedic Surgery
osteoarthritis, fracture nonunion, epigenetics, DNA methylation, cellular metabolism, lipid metabolism, stem cell, chondrocyte
Matthew Silva - Orthopaedic Surgery
Skeletal biomechanics and mechanobiology; bone strength; osteoporosis; skeletal imaging
Simon Tang - Orthopaedic Surgery
Disc Degeneration; Low back pain; osteoporosis and fragility