Innovative musculoskeletal research to transform aging, injury, and disease.
The UCSF Musculoskeletal (MSK) Center is an incubator for bold ideas, a hub that nucleates musculoskeletal research, education, and advocacy. This center connects a community of basic, translational, computational, and clinical musculoskeletal investigators with pioneering UCSF investigators across the research spectrum.
We invite your partnership in the transformative mission of the MSK Center. Participate in our efforts to reverse the effects of aging on the musculoskeletal system, to cure arthritis and osteoporosis, and to enhance human performance.
We are encouraging “Blue Sky” thinking, to broaden and deepen the scope of discovery. There is evidence connecting MSK health to cognitive health: could MSK research lead to a cure for Alzheimer’s? What inroads can we make to end disability and skeletal deformity in children, to alleviate health disparities among vulnerable populations.
Tamara Alliston, PhD
Director of the UCSF Musculoskeletal Center