{"id":2544,"date":"2025-07-25T11:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2025-09-02T17:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:02:38","slug":"saying-goodbye-to-joao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/2025\/07\/25\/saying-goodbye-to-joao\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying goodbye to Jo\u00e3o"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-25-at-01.02.03_98e42af3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-25-at-01.02.03_98e42af3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-25-at-01.02.03_98e42af3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-25-at-01.02.03_98e42af3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-25-at-01.02.03_98e42af3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-25-at-01.02.03_98e42af3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-25-at-01.02.03_98e42af3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jo\u00e3o has finished his secondment in our lab this week. Over the course of 3 months he characterised the mechanical properties of his osteochondral plug system and investigated the role of oxidative and ER-stress in OA progression. Yesterday we went to Alnwick to see the castle and the famous bookshop and drove back to Newcastle along the scenic coastal route. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It was an absolute pleasure to host Jo\u00e3o in our lab!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>We are looking forward to seeing the analysed data and to catching up with Jo\u00e3o at the next CHANGE annual meeting in January 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jo\u00e3o has finished his secondment in our lab this week. Over the course of 3 months he characterised the mechanical properties of his osteochondral plug system and investigated the role of oxidative and ER-stress in OA progression. Yesterday we went to Alnwick to see the castle and the famous bookshop and drove back to Newcastle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/2025\/07\/25\/saying-goodbye-to-joao\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saying goodbye to Jo\u00e3o<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4483,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-musculoskeletal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2546,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions\/2546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}