Meet The Researcher: Q&A with Prashanta Silwal, PhD
On the Orland Bethel Family Musculoskeletal Research Center (BMRC) team is Prashanta Silwal, PhD, an international postdoctoral associate at the University of Pittsburgh. He is working toward identifying molecular and cellular mechanisms of low-back pain and...
Center Aims to Quickly Transform Research Ideas into Musculoskeletal Treatments
Research is essential to advancing the science that leads to better health care for all. However, about half of all early-career researchers leave their academic research positions within five years of earning a PhD. Many have said that the main reason they leave...
Dr. Ines Lohse Receives ICRE Distinguished Research Mentor Award
The Bethel Musculoskeletal Research Center (BMRC) is thrilled to congratulate Dr. Ines Lohse, co-director of the Musculoskeletal Oncology Lab, on receiving the Distinguished Research Mentor Award at this year’s Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE)...
2025 SSRP Students Announced
Congratulations to this year’s cohort of BMRC Summer Student Research Program (SSRP) participants, which includes nine students from both inside and outside the University of Pittsburgh. Following on the heels of last year’s successful inaugural season, SSRP will...
BMRC Ferguson Lab Highlighted at 1st Annual Pitt Pain Day
The Pittsburgh Pain Consortium (PPC) held their inaugural Pain Day on Wednesday, May 7 highlighting scholarship, innovation and engagement in pain research and care. The PPC comprises of multiple centers at the University of Pittsburgh, including Pittsburgh LB3P in...
Dr. John Drazan Named Inaugural BMRC/ORS Mentorship & Outreach Fellow
We are pleased to announce that Dr. John Drazan, assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering at Fairfield University has been named the 2025 BMRC/ORS Mentorship & Outreach Fellow.Dr. Drazan and his team from Fairfield University recently led the first...
BMRC Hosts First Community Outreach Program, Sports2STEM
The BMRC hosted its first community outreach program, Sports2STEM, a two-hour basketball program, at the UPMC Cooper Field House at Duquesne University on Tuesday, April 8. The BMRC partnered with Dr. John Drazan, assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering,...
2025 BMRC/ORS Fellowship – Apply Today!
Get up to $30,000 in funds to support your translational basic science or clinical musculoskeletal research project in 2025. Become a Bethel Fellow and apply today to the BMRC/ORS Fellowship, now open for applications. The BMRC aims to support the next...
Apply Now – BMRC/Orthopaedic Surgery Research Fellowship Applications Now Open
Deadline: March 1, 2025 (Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis) Apply here or paste this URL into your browser: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5ZMB-OSL_Plisesx6rk5vkwOesKmeXiezMvOx8m7LvDwKcQ/viewform?usp=sf_link Application Requirements Cover...
Pioneering BioBank Launched with $18.5M Investment to Revolutionize Musculoskeletal Disease Research
The Orland Bethel Family Foundation has announced a significant investment of $18.5 million to establish a biological specimen repository within the Orland Bethel Family Musculoskeletal Research Center (BMRC) at the University of Pittsburgh. This initiative aims...
Hillandale Farms owner commits another $18.5M to Pitt for orthopedic-based biobank
It’s one thing to give $25 million to advance medicine, as Greensburg’s Orland Bethel and his family foundation did last year in helping to establish a new University of Pittsburgh center for musculoskeletal research. But Bethel, 88, founder of Hillandale Farms,...
Pitt will create first known orthopedics-based biobank in the Western Hemisphere after $18.5 million gift
An $18.5 million donation to the University of Pittsburgh will allow the school to create what is believed to be the first orthopedics-based biobank in the Western Hemisphere. Orland Bethel, founder of Greensburg-based egg giant Hillandale Farms, is making the...