BMRC Supports Spine Society Travel Award Recipients

The Bethel Musculoskeletal Research Center (BMRC) and the ORS Philadelphia Spine Research Society (PSRS) are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 BMRC/PSRS Travel Award: Alexis Camacho Tugba Mehmetoglu Gurbuz Shuhei Iwata This award supports outstanding...

BMRC Celebrates Success of Inaugural EUROSPINE Visiting Fellow

As EUROSPINE's Annual Meeting takes place this week in Gothenburg, Sweden, the Bethel Musculoskeletal Research Center (BMRC) is proud to highlight the accomplishments of Julia Mocking, the inaugural BMRC/EUROSPINE Visiting Research Fellowship recipient. During her...

2026 BMRC Symposium Highlights Innovation and Collaboration

The Bethel Musculoskeletal Research Center (BMRC) proudly hosted its 2nd annual Symposium on September 25, 2026, bringing together faculty, Bethel Fellows, trainees, clinicians, and research partners for a day dedicated to research and collaboration. The event...
Meet The Researcher – Prashanta Silwal, PhD

Meet The Researcher – Prashanta Silwal, PhD

Can you share a bit about your early life and what sparked your interest in research, medicine and orthopaedics/bioengineering? I was born and raised in Nepal. I have been interested in science since my early childhood. The unlimited potential that science offers has...

BMRC/ORS Announce Grant Partnership

BMRC/ORS Announce Grant Partnership

A joint grant partnership between the new Bethel Musculoskeletal Research Center (BMRC), the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) was announced Friday at the 70th Annual ORS Meeting, held in Long Beach, California. These grants,...

Meet The Researcher – Kurt Weiss, MD

Meet The Researcher – Kurt Weiss, MD

Can you share a bit about your early life and what sparked your interest in research, medicine and orthopaedics/bioengineering? I was born and raised in Pittsburgh’s North Hills, attending St. Teresa Elementary School and North Hills High School. I was diagnosed with...

2024 Seminar Calendar

2024 Seminar Calendar

January 17: Dr. Jie Shen, Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine "Fracture Nonunion: New Insights into Mechanism and Therapy" February 12: Dr. Volker Musahl and Dr. Richard Debski - Biomechanics March 11: Dr....

Meet The Researcher – Allison Bean, MD, PhD

Meet The Researcher – Allison Bean, MD, PhD

Can you share a bit about your early life and what sparked your interest in research, medicine and orthopaedics/bioengineering? When I was in high school, my parents (both civil engineers) told me about the recently established field of biomedical engineering or...

Meet The Researcher – Dr. Hang Lin, PhD

Meet The Researcher – Dr. Hang Lin, PhD

Can you share a bit about your early life and what sparked your interest in research, medicine and orthopaedics/bioengineering? When I was a Ph.D. student looking for a lab to do my thesis, I was fascinated by the tissue engineering-related work in Dr. Jianwu Dai’s...