Current Research

Tiffany Kim, MD

Department of Medicine
Bone marrow fat and skeletal health in type 2 diabetes

Brian Feeley, MD

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Cellular heterogeneity and sex based differences in human ACL injuries

Kazuhito Morioka, MD, PhD

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Nociplastic spinal cord-muscle loop in degenerative disc disease (DDD)

Christine Hong, DMD, MS

Department of Orofacial Sciences
Role of p75^NTR in Osteogenic Differentiation and Skeletal Development using Mouse Model
 

Richard Souza, PhD, PT
 

Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science
The Relationship between Gait Biomechanics and Exercise Induced Pain Flares in Patellofemoral Joint Osteoarthritis

Janet Lee, MD, MPH

Department of Medicine
Advanced ultrasound techniques for the evaluation of total knee arthroplasty

Douglas Gould, PhD

Department of Opthamalogy
Mechanistic and Therapeutic Examination of Congenital Skeletal Defects in Col4a1 Mutant Mice

Alfred Kuo, MD PhD 

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Advanced ultrasound techniques for the evaluation of total knee arthroplasty

Edward Hsiao, MD, PhD 

Department of Medicine
Linking Innate Immune Dysfunction to Abnormal Bone Formation

Brian Feeley, MD

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Co-Investigator: Jason Pomerantz, MD
Evaluation of satellite cell function and transplantation in rotator cuff injury

Wenhan Chang, PhD

Department of Medicine
Co-Investigator: Farzana Perwad, MD
Central Regulation of Ion transport and Skeletal Mineralization by FGF23 and Klotho

Sergey Magnitsky, PhD

Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
Preclinical MR imaging and spectroscopy of bacteria infection in spinal disc

Douglas Gould, PhD

Department of Opthamalogy
Characterizing skeletal defects in Col4a1 mutant mice

Chelsea Bahney, PhD

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Building a Better Bone: Promoting Endochondral Ossification to Stimulate Vascularized Bone Regeneration

Xiaojuan Li, PhD

Departments of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Orthopaeic Surgey
Collaborator: Benjamin Ma, MD
In search of preventive measures for post-traumatic osteoarthritis: Synovial fluid characterization after anterior cruciate ligament injuries using novel techniques and approaches

Aaron Fields, PhD

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Endplate dysfunction in disc degeneration: investigating solute transport kinetics, disc cell viability, and new imaging methods

Xuhui Liu, MD

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Neuro-regulation of osteoporosis and heterotopic ossification after spinal cord injury

Saghi Sadoughi, PhD

Department of Radiology
Establishing Time-Lapse HR-pQCT technique for Determining Total Bone Turnover in Patients with CKD 

Liping Wang, MD, PhD

Department of Medicine
Spatial Profiling WNT Signaling Pathway in PTH-treated Mouse Bones

Jinsook Suh, PhD

Department of Orofacial Sciences
Elucidating the epigenetic regulation of p75NTR in skeletal development

Po-Hung Wu, PhD

Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
Cortical Bone Vasculature Imaging via Contrast-enhanced High-resolution Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography (HR-pQCT)

Musa Zaid, MD

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Patient-Specific Pathologic Femur Fracture Risk Assessment Using Geometrically Precise 3D-Printed Biomechanical Phantoms

Alan Dang, MD

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
3D printing μCT data

Debbie Y. Dang, MD PhD 

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Collaborator: Alfred C. Kuo, MD PhD
Comparison of fracture healing in Cadherin 11 knockout and wild-type female and male mice

Valentina Pedoia, PhD 

Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
Parallel Computing for Deep Learning Image Features Extraction

John B. Imboden, MD

Department of Medicine
Co-Investigators: Dolores M Shoback, MD; 
Dennis Black, PhD
Database Development for Studies of Disease Activity, Metabolic Indices and Inflammation

Anne Schafer, MD

Department of Medicine
Co-PI:John Shepherd, PhD
Co-Investigator: Tiffany Kim, MD
Trabecular Bone Score: Examining Vertebral Bone Quality in Gastric Bypass-Induced Bone Loss and in Other Musculoskeletal Conditions

Tamara Alliston, PhD

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
High-throughput genomic analysis of TGFβ-responsive osteocyte mRNA and miR

Aaron Fields, PhD

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Measurement of the effect of cartilage endplate permeability on disc cell function using in situ hybridization

Ursula Heimeier, MD

Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
The role of miRNAs in human diabetic bone disease and their association with HRpQCT-derived bone microarchitectural parameter

Shingo Kajimura, PhD

Department of Cell & Tissue Biology
Molecular links between BAT and the musculoskeletal system