We are pleased to announce our first-ever EUROSPINE Visiting Research Fellowship. We are excited to welcome Julia Mocking, a PhD candidate in neurosurgery, for a 12‑month fellowship beginning this summer. Julia will be hosted in our Ferguson Spine Lab and Pittsburgh...
Future researchers alert! Last week we were happy to welcome a group of students from the CNX Mentorship Academy, in partnership with our UPMC/CNX M.O.V.E.S Program. This group of students spent the morning with some of our core lab investigators, learning about their...
Congratulations to this year’s cohort of BMRC Summer Student Research Program (SSRP) participants! This year’s program welcomes six talented students from both within and beyond the University of Pittsburgh. The SSRP offers students an immersive experience that...
The Orland Bethel Family Foundation, a powerful supporter of the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences, raised its contributions to the University to nearly $100 million with an additional $53.5 million to expand the Orland Bethel Family Musculoskeletal Research...
The Orland Bethel Family Foundation, a powerful supporter of the health sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, has committed an additional $53.5 million to expand the Orland Bethel Family Musculoskeletal Research Center (BMRC). The gift, which brings...
Our Musculoskeletal Oncology Lab (MOL) ended the year strong by achieving some big milestones.Starting off, the MOL was awarded a Community Resource Development Award from the DoD Rare Cancers Research Program - the largest award offered through this program. This...
The MechanoBiology Lab, a BMRC Core Lab directed by Dr. James H-C. Wang, is advancing innovative strategies to prevent overuse tendon injuries. Recent preclinical research from the lab demonstrates that a topical metformin lotion can prevent the onset of tendinopathy...
Congratulations to Dr. Gwendolyn Sowa and Dr. Nam Vo on their UC2 grant, “Whole person experience of pain: Novel integration with low back pain phenotypes”, which was recently funded for $20 million by NIAMS and NINDS. This project builds on the NIH HEAL Initiative...
We were honored to welcome Hooman H. Rashidi, MD, MS, FCAP, to the Bethel Musculoskeletal Research Center (BMRC) as a guest speaker at our monthly research seminar. As the Associate Dean of AI in Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, Executive Vice Chair of...
In September, BMRC hosted its first annual BMRC Research Symposium, bringing together nearly 160 faculty, trainees, staff, and students. The full-day event highlighted the depth and diversity of musculoskeletal research across the clinical and basic...