Organization profile
Organization profile
Director: April Armstrong, MD
The multidisciplinary foci of CORTS include:
- Molecular biology of cartilage development and osteoarthritis
- Transgenic animal models of musculoskeletal disease
- Bone and cartilage cell biology
- Biophysical signal transduction as it applies to orthopaedic problems
- Pathophysiology of age-related and post-menopausal osteoporosis
- Computational biomechanics
- Effects of exercise on bone and cartilage
- Assessment of orthopaedic implant function and failure
- Matrix metalloproteinase expression in connective tissue
- Tendon/ligament mechanics and mechanobiology
- Roles of non-coding RNAs and retrotransposons in skeletal biology