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Our PhD advert is now live!

9 December, 2020Musculoskeletal news, PhD studentshipsKatarzyna

To apply, please click: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/sources/ukeustudents/bi034.html

This interdisciplinary project combines the expertise of two supervisors (a cartilage biologist and a tissue engineer) to develop a bioprinted mechanically responsive tissue engineered model of cartilage and generate a transcriptomic and proteomic profile of healthy cartilage ageing.

For more details of the project, please check: https://nc3rs.org.uk/investigating-biomechanical-responses-healthy-and-diseases-ageing-cartilage-tissue-engineering.

We are happy to annouce that we have received NC3Rs PhD funding!

26 November, 2020Musculoskeletal news, PhD studentshipsKatarzyna

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Details of the project can be found here: https://nc3rs.org.uk/investigating-biomechanical-responses-healthy-and-diseases-ageing-cartilage-tissue-engineering

The studentship will be advertised shortly, watch this space!

Congratulations to Dr Thais de las Heras Ruiz!

5 November, 2020Fun, Musculoskeletal newsKatarzyna

Well done Thais! An online viva and a Zoom celebration for now, but we will have a proper one for your graduation for sure!

A big thank you to the examiners, Dr Emma Blain and Dr Ana Ferreira-Duarte, for conducting the viva. Thank you to JGW Patterson Foundation for funding this exciting project in tissue engineering of cartilage.

Congratulations from a very proud supervisor!

Join us at the ICCBH Virtual Forum on Bone Fragility Disorders in Children on 18-20th of November 2020

26 October, 2020Conferences, Musculoskeletal newsKatarzyna

The Virtual Forum, organised in association with ECTS, OIF and OIFE, will comprise invited lectures, meet the expert sessions, workshops, clinical case discussions, oral communications, poster discussions and networking sessions.

The aim is to present and discuss new research in investigative, diagnostic and therapeutic management of patients with bone fragility disorders and to foster the exchange of ideas and discussion of ongoing initiatives.

Kasia will be speaking on Thursday at 7pm, and talking about “Altered intracellular homeostasis in bone fragility”

Standard registration is €150 and reduced registration is €90. To register, please click here

British Society for Matrix Biology (BSMB) FREE autumn meeting is open for registration

30 July, 2020Conferences, Musculoskeletal newsKatarzyna

Congratulations to Rachel for completing her MRes project!

30 July, 2020Musculoskeletal newsKatarzyna

Huge congratulations to Rachel Pearson for completing her JGW Patterson funded MRes in Ageing and Health project in these difficult COVID19 circumstances. Great presentation and very interesting results, well done!

Our new paper is out!

21 July, 2020Musculoskeletal news, PublicationsKatarzyna

Our new paper, showing an isomiR of miR-140-3p is the most functional in cartilage, is out in RNA

CIMA’s award-winning Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) available for free

10 June, 2020Musculoskeletal newsKatarzyna

This free online course has been developed by The Medical Research Council Versus Arthritis Centre for Integrated Research into Musculoskeletal Ageing, a collaboration between the Universities of Liverpool, Sheffield and Newcastle. On this course, you’ll learn why our bones, joints and muscles function less well as we age, and discover how best to live well as we get older.

ECTS@HOME 19th May 2020

13 May, 2020Conferences, Musculoskeletal newsKatarzyna

The European Calcified Tissue Society are organising a free mini-conference online, covering bone development and disease. For more details, click on the image below: