NEW: Our first program, NITRO, has selected 5 performer teams to answer the question, “What if we could make our joints heal themselves?”. 🏆 Get to know the teams 👇 arpa-h.gov/news-and-event…

I’m thrilled to share this incredible news. Clark Hung and I are leading an ARPA-H funded team of multidisciplinary researchers from Columbia BME Columbia Orthopedics Columbia U. Dental Medicine & Univ of Missouri to engineer a living knee replacement Orthopaedic Research Society The Hung Lab

Returning home from the ARPA-H NITRO kickoff feeling pumped to start our NITRO project and inspired by the stories shared about the Cherokee Nation health systems. The Hung Lab Columbia Medicine Columbia Orthopedics Columbia BME

What a journey getting this work out! Countless folks were pivotal in getting this study completed including Beth G. Ashinsky, MD, PhD Kevin Burt, PhD 🤠 Lynn Ann Forrester Steve Thomopoulos Dr. William Levine and countless folks not on Twitter, so go check out that author list before giving it a read! 🥳

Enjoyed participating in ortho research demos for Distance Traveled with lab members Varun Arvind and Elaine Nagahara! Christen Russo Columbia Orthopedics

We Penn Orthopaedics are excited to announce an open faculty position in the McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory for an Assistant Professor in the tenure track! Please share broadly! If you are or know someone interested, do reach out to me or Co-Chair Xiaowei Sherry Liu. Apply here! apply.interfolio.com/146051

Announcing the founding Editors-in-Chief of JOR Spine departure. Mauro Alini, Daisuke Sakai, and Robert Mauck led JORS to an impressive 3.7 impact factor in 4 years. We thank them for their vision and dedication! 👏Learn more and about the open position: bit.ly/4bPLEv2

Giulia Crosio ORS Tendon Section Alice Huang *** award winning!! You did an amazing job !

New preprint! Here we validate a novel model of neuromuscular contracture in the mouse that models changes in patients with cerebral palsy, and identify Smad4 as a novel target to rescue contracture formation. Alice Huang Columbia Orthopedics Weinberg Family Cerebral Palsy Center

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If you’re interested in functional readouts of Achilles tendon healing, check out our latest article mltj.online/catwalk-xt-gai… Alice Huang

A new device created in the lab of Dr. Stavros Thomopoulos mimics the gripping power of python teeth to strengthen rotator cuff repairs  💪 In a new paper published today in Science Advances, the team reported that utilizing the device almost doubled tendon-to-bone repair

Excited to share our latest Journal of Orthopaedic Research® editorial from Jess Ackerman & Prof Stephanie Dakin highlighting the steps required to enable the musculoskeletal research community to translate #omics research into effective therapeutics #tendon #teamtendon #teamwork onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Staggering “70% of tenured men have children while only 44% of tenured women do”

✨ Announcing the 2024-2025 "I Wish I Had Known" Webinar series! ✨ These LIVE events will feature topic-specific panel discussions (three guests per session) along with individual Spotlight Sessions. Sign up for free here: lnkd.in/gsCrWsc9

Beautiful studies!

Congratulations Varun Arvind !!!

Or Human Tendon‐on‐Chip work is out today Advanced Sci News. Check how we applied this platform to study tendon core‐T cell spatiotemporal crosstalk. Great multi-institutional team effort led by Mahwish Bakht with Manuela E. Gomes. 3B's Research Group Manuel Gomez-Florit onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Looking forward to learning from my fellow panelists!