📣 The 4th Disc4All EU Project Winter School organised by Dorina Stanculescu and Liesbet Geris is going very well! Great #ESR Presentations, discussions, WPs updates! 🎊This time we have a special guest - our PO Thomas Vyzikas, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Research Executive Agency! More info here: insilicotrials.com/disc4all/

Fantastic talk by Ali Mobasheri about #translational #research in #osteoarthritis at the 4th Disc4All EU Project at KU Leuven, organised by Dorina Stanculescu, Liesbet Geris and Ahmad Alminnawi! Thank you Ali for joining us and sharing!

Today, Dorina Stanculescu from InSilicoTrials delivered to the Disc4All EU Project consortium a fantastic workshop about #leadership, followed by very structuring exercise of exploitation analysis of the assets of our project 🙌

#Day5 We are at the end of the 4th Disc4All EU Project Winter School with 2 great talks! 👉 ¨The #virtual #humans factory¨ by Mariano Vazquez and ¨The future of #digitaltwins in Europe¨ by Liesbet Geris! Last but not least, we would like to thank all participants in this event!🫶

This is valuable new evidence of a kind that needs more attention right now: pain and imaging results absolutely DO correlate. There are certainly interesting exceptions, but correlation has always been the rule, and the evidence has always shown that, and now here's some more.

🌟 We would like to congratulate Luca Ambrosio, Jordy - ジョルディ, Sakai Disc Lab, G Vadalà and co-authors on winning the prestigious International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (#ISSLS) Prize in Basic Science 2024! 🏆 doi.org/10.1007/s00586… European Spine J

Look out for the Disc4All EU Project symposium at #ISSLS2024! #Translational disc degeneration research through multiscale #experimental & #computational models, #omics & large #data with Wuertz Lab Bone & Joint Program DBMR Jerome Noailly & Frances Williams presenting this Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project!

Fantastic symposium at #ISSLS2024 which tackled gaps between the basic science and clinical studies with their emphasis on #painscience and update on the latest evidence in pain management Jaro Karppinen Lars Arendt-Nielsen Prof Laura Stone ISSLS

Great talk Jaro Karppinen! #ISSLS2024

This was a great talk! Interesting that the paraspinal muscle biopsy can appear normal but have no contractile function in multilevel IVD degeneration #ISSLS2024

Capping off a VERY long day of stimulating presentations on the latest research in clinical and basic science spine research with a delicious dinner with so many of my European #ISSLS2024 colleagues!

A highlight of my PhD to attend #ISSLS2024 with so many great friends and colleagues, but especially Jaro Karppinen Juhani Määttä and the Disc4All EU Project ESRs and PIs. Missing PI Simo Saarakkala and Aleksei Tiulpin, PhD (maybe next year?)

Fascinating study of the affect of chronic alcohol consumption on #ivddegeneration in mice presented by the Prof. Svenja Illien-Junger #ISSLS2024

Annulus Fibrosus Injury Induces Acute Neuroinflammation and Chronic Glial Response in Dorsal Root Ganglion and Spinal Cord—An In Vivo Rat Discogenic Pain Model mdpi.com/1422-0067/25/3… nice presentation from James Iatridis #ISSLS2024 ISSLS

Ready for another bit of obscure WTF molecular biology that has an important broader message you’ll see discussed nowhere in the science press? Of course you are! Then here goes. (Warning – long thread! But with a punchline.) It’s about this paper: /1 nature.com/articles/s4158…

I am pleased to share my latest publication (📌 lnkd.in/dQGjNEtE) Frontiers - Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 📌 SpineWebRepo: lnkd.in/dngjtSBS Thanks: GEMMA PIELLA FENOY, Jerome Noailly, Morteza Rasouligandomani, Francis Chemorion, Disc4All EU Project, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, BCN MedTech, InSilicoTrials, ISSLS, European Society of Biomechanics

Looks like SBPR had another great event this year, I'm sorry to have missed it second year in a row!

My lab is on the lookout for a new post-doc to do research on spinal motion analysis and paraspinal muscle quality. Send me an email if you are working on wrapping up your PhD this year and are interested. opportunities.ucsf.edu/content/postdo…