First Name | Last Name | Country | Description | |
Amanda | Fosang | Australia | Aggrecanases, collagenases, cartilage degradation | amanda.fosang@mcri.edu.au |
Floris | Lafeber | Netherlands | Osteoarthritis/Cartilage | f.lafeber@umcutrecht.nl |
Ida Kristin | Haugen | Norway | Hand Osteoarthritis epidemiology and imaging | ida.haugen@diakonsyk.no or ida.k.haugen@gmail.com |
Kathryn | Stok | Australia | Dr Stok heads the Integrative Cartilage Research Group quantitative microstructural imaging (micro-computed tomography) and biomechanics of cartilage and joint structures. She uses a variety of experimental and computational approaches. Her research work merges solid engineering approaches with biomedical advancement. | kstok@unimelb.edu.au |
Lynne | Parkinson | Australia | Longitudinal analysis of arthritis and comorbidities in older women, using 9 years of Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health survey and linked databases (pharmaceutical, medical services, hospitalisations). See www.alswh.org.au |
l.parkinson@cqu.edu.au |
Magali | Cucchiarini | Germany | Gene therapy, regenerative medicine, tissue engineering for disorders of the musculoskeletal system | mmcucchiarini@hotmail.com |
Miguel | Otero | USA |
Basic OA research, mouse models of OA, epigenetics, cartilage biology, chondrocyte biology, inflammation and OA |
oterom@hss.edu |
Peter | Choong | Australia | 1. Clinical research including clinical trials in arthritis surgery. Analysis of large clinical datasets/joint replacement registry |
pchoong@unimelb.edu.au |
Virginia | Byers-Kraus | USA | OA Biomarkers and pathogenesis | vbk@duke.edu |
Yang | Xia | USA | icroscopic imaging of cartilage and bone using microscopic MRI (μMRI), polarized light microscopy (PLM), Fourier-transform infrared imaging (FT-IRI), microscopic x-ray tomography (μCT). |
xia@oakland.edu |
Derek | Rutherford | Canada | Knee and Hip osteoarthritis, electromography, gait biomechanics and physiotherapy | djr@dal.ca |
Francisco | Blanco | Spain | OA genomic and proteomic biomarkers Cartilage biology |
fblagar@sergas.es |