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...
Our Bethel Orthopaedic BioBank has reached an incredible milestone: 400 total patients and 15,000 total specimens! Those are the updated stats from this past week and we couldn't be more thrilled. These numbers are the result of more than 18 months of work, averaging...
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...
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...
Members of our BMRC core labs, including representatives from our Ferguson Spine Lab, traveled together to Newark, DE, for this year’s ORS Philadelphia Spine Research Society (PSRS) Symposium, held on Friday, November 7, at the University of Delaware’s FinTech...
Now Accepting Applications for the 2026–2027 Bethel Musculoskeletal Research Center (BMRC) Orthopaedic Surgery Clinical Research Fellowship! This paid, one-year opportunity offers hands-on experience in orthopaedic research and clinical care, working directly with Dr....
Breaking News! A new, international fellowship opportunity was announced today at this year’s 2025 EUROSPINE Annual Meeting: the BMRC / EUROSPINE Visiting Research Scholarship. EUROSPINE, the Spine Society of Europe, is a leading professional, non-profit...