Kurt Hankenson, DVM, PhD
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics Lehigh University Profile: PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Lehigh University (2008); Postdoc at the Cork Institute of Technology (Cork, Ireland) What is your specific area of interest? Bone fracture healing and surgical fracture repair with an emphasis on large animal models and clinical translation What are you [...]
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery University of Connecticut Health Center PhD in Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences, Virginia Tech BS in Biophysics, University of Michigan How did you get involved in orthopedic research? The evolution of biological structure and function captivated me from a young age. As an undergraduate, I focused on this topic from [...]
Institute/Lab/Company Sibley School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Cornell University Profile Postdoc, UC Berkeley Postdoc, Mount Sinai School of Medicine MS, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University SB, Engineering Sciences, Harvard University Specific Area of Interest The Microbiome and Musculoskeletal Disease What are you currently working on? My lab focuses on the effects of the [...]
Title: Program Director of Bone Repair and Regenerative Therapeutics Center for Regenerative Sports Medicine Steadman Philippon Research Institute Associate Adjunct Professor Orthopaedic Trauma Institute University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Affiliate Faculty Departments of Biomedical Engineering & Clinical Science Colorado State University Specific Area of Interest My long-term research goal is to develop translationally [...]
Tamara Alliston, PhD has led her own laboratory since 2006 in the University of California San Francisco Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. She currently holds the position of Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at UCSF, in addition to Adjunct Professor positions in both the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and the Department of Bioengineering [...]
The Journal of Orthopaedic Research® has eight Associate Editors who dedicate their time to the Journal. Matthew Allen, VetMB, PhD has served as an Associate Editor for the past two years. What is your specific area of research? Preclinical animal models of musculoskeletal disease What has been the biggest challenge/issue for you as an associate editor? Finding [...]
Chantal de Bakker is an Associate Member of the ORS and a graduate student in the Bioengineering Department of the University of Pennsylvania. She is conducting her PhD thesis research in the laboratory of Dr. Xiaowei (Sherry) Liu (ORS Member). Ms. de Bakker received the 2015 ORS/RJOS Young Female Investigator Travel Grant for her presentation [...]
Henry J. Donahue, PhD was the 2017 recipient of the 2017 ORS Outstanding Achievement in Mentoring Award. Dr. Donahue is the School of Engineering Foundation Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. He received his PhD in Biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at [...]
Name and Title D. Rick Sumner, The Mary Lou Bell McGrew Presidential Professor for Medical Research and Chair, Department of Cell & Molecular Medicine (formerly, Anatomy and Cell Biology) Institute/Lab/Company Rush Medical College, Rush University Medical Center Specific Area of Interest Bone regeneration, bone remodeling, role of bone in osteoarthritis What are you currently working [...]