So excited to share our recent publication with BurdickLab and Victoria Grace Muir on granular hydrogels for nucleus pulposus augmentation - check it out!

Congrats Kyle Kuchynsky for his publication, Transcriptional profiling of human cartilage endplate cells identifies novel genes and cell clusters underlying degenerated and non-degenerated phenotypes - Check it out! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38173036/ Devina Purmessur (Walter) OhioStateBME

👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 The social media meetup is always the highlight of the ORS for me!! Be sure to bring your non-SM friends too! Meghan McGee-Lawrence Joel Boerckel Nick Willett Sarah E. Gullbrand Evan Buettmann, Ph.D. Bonnie Walton Dr. Deezy (Sade W. Clayton, PhD) Jeannie Bailey, PhD McBride-Gagyi Lab Blaine Christiansen Kurt Hankenson

I wrote my first research paper (under the tutelage of Sarah E. Gullbrand) last year. And yesterday a print copy showed up courtesy of Karger Publishers. Very classy Cells, Tissues, Organs. Very classy. I guess as first author I should say what the paper is about ⬇️

The Mauck Lab is SO excited to share our work at #ORS2024! Check out our schedule and stop by our presentations to learn more about our recent research! 🥳🧫💙

Come check out all the exciting work from our spine research group at #ORS2024! Featuring collaborations with Dr Robby Bowles Al Kiapour PhD, MMSc | MGH Harvard DiscGenics

Amazing presentation by Dr.Sarah E. Gullbrand on Mechanisms Of Facet Degeneration Adjacent To Engineered Discs Implanted With Plate Fixation #ORS2024 ORS Spine Section Orthopaedic Research Society MGH Neurosurgery U Penn

Al Kiapour PhD, MMSc | MGH Harvard Sarah E. Gullbrand ORS Spine Section Orthopaedic Research Society MGH Neurosurgery U Penn Day two at Orthopaedic Research Society! Sarah E. Gullbrand showcasing our work tissue engineering disc replacements using a large animal model and using finite element modeling to understand stresses across the facet joint.

Super excited to see our recent opinion article now online in Trends in Biotechnology, "Physical-property-based patterning: simply engineering complex tissues." Thank you to Robert Mauck & Molly Stevens for your insights and suggestions with this piece. Link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1i~FTc9XEnJ~i

New R01 in the lab looking at BLST (ZNF865) role in disc degeneration and as a potential therapy. We currently know that this gene can rescue senescent cell populations! Also get to work with friends Sarah E. Gullbrand Jay Gertz Hunter Levis Matthew Fainor

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

🐐🔙🚸🗣️🔬✍🏻 New goat #spine crosstalk paper We and others have looked at this preclinical model of #IntervertebralDiscDegeneration, but we’re taking a more holistic approach to better understand how this model recapitulates human disease to more effectively test new therapies.

Congrats to Dr. Mohammed Abdullah on a fantastic talk today at Penn Ortho’s Resident Research Day Symposia! I’ve been super lucky to mentor 3 fantastic orthopaedic surgery residents in the lab (Sachin, Mo and Bijan) over the past 4 years.

Also congratulations to Matthew Fainor for being this year’s Katz Award recipient for his contributions towards advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in our department!

🔬 Our new review @JORSpine finds cell- and #PRP treatments for LBP to show significant clinical improvements. Pain and #disability relief trends comparable to spinal fusion up to 2 years! 7623 papers screened, 68 studies analyzed. doi.org/10.1002/jsp2.1…

Yesterday we welcomed Janai Augustin back to the Sarah E. Gullbrand lab! Two years ago he worked for a summer in our lab as a B-SURE fellow, and now he’s back to do his PhD! 🤩🥳🥰🤓

TFW The Chow Lab alumni come to visit 🥹🥰 Always lovely catching up with great humans like Matthew Fainor who is thriving Penn Orthopaedics McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory with Sarah E. Gullbrand! 🤩We miss you Lehigh University! Thanks for making time to hang! Diana Hammerstone Lehigh Bioengineering Lehigh MSE Lehigh Engineers

We are recruiting for a new Assistant Professor in the McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory Penn Medicine! Apply here! apply.interfolio.com/146051 Please submit applications by October 7th for consideration.