Project: Detrimental effects of diabetes mellitus on intervertebral disc health
Alec Beeve (4/2019 – 3/2022)
Mentor: Erica Scheller, DDS, PhD
Project: Effects of acute and chronic bioelectric nerve stimulation on bone metabolism: towards a novel osteoanabolic therapy
Anna Ballard, PhD (3/2016 – 2/2019)
Mentor: Deborah Veis, MD, PhD
Project: Molecular and biochemical investigation of the genotype-phenotype correlation in rare osteolytic syndromes, Juvenile Paget’s Disease and Multicentric Carpo-Tarsal Osteolysis
Project: Modulating genes differentially expressed with age in order to ameliorate age-associated decline in musculoskeletal health
Britta Anderson, PhD (8/2014 – 6/2017)
Mentor: Audrey McAlinden, PhD
Project: Role of microRNAs in regulating cartilage development and homeostasis
Corinne Decker, PhD (7/2011 – 6/2015)
Mentor: Roberta Faccio, PhD
Project: The role of TMEM178 in osteoclasts and innate immune cells during inflammatory arthritis
Jeremy Eekhoff (9/2019 – 8/2021)
Mentor: Spencer Lake, PhD
Project: Defining the role of elastic fibers in multiscale mechanics of functionally distinct tendons
Gregory Fox (9/2017 – 8/2020)
Mentor: Katherine Weilbaecher, MD
Project: Role of bone-induced integrin β3 in chemoresistance of skeletal metastasis
Jennifer Brazill, PhD (10/2018 – 9/2021)
Mentor: Erica Scheller, DDS, PhD
Project: Skeletal innervation and neural regulation of bone modeling in health and diabetes
Katherine Hixon, PhD (4/2019 – 8/2019)
Mentor: Matthew Silva, PhD
Project: The development and rescue of an atrophic nonunion model
Leila Saleh, PhD (10/2021-09/2022)
Mentor: Farshid Guilak, PhD
Project: : Designing a smart-cell loaded dynamic drug delivery system for the delivery of biologic therapeutics in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis
Lisa Lawson, PhD (9/2019 – 8/2021)
Mentor: Matthew Silva, PhD
Project: Wnt-mediated bone formation in response to mechanical loading
Nilsson Holguin, PhD (3/2014 – 6/2014)
Mentor: Matthew Silva, PhD
Project: The role of mechanical forces on β-catenin of aged intervertebral disc health
Stephen Linderman, MD, PhD (7/2014 – 2/2016)
Mentor: Stavros Thomopoulos, PhD
Project: Developmentally guided tissue engineering for enthesis regeneration
Sara McBride-Gagyi , PhD (7/2011 – 1/2014)
Mentor: Matthew Silva, PhD
Project: Contribution of BMP2 to woven bone formation and accompanying angiogenesis
Feini (Sylvia) Qu, VMD, PhD (1/2018 – 1/2019)
Mentor: Farshid Guilak, PhD
Project: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Murine Digit Regeneration
Muhammad Farooq Rai, PhD (7/2011 – 5/2013)
Mentor: Linda Sandell, PhD
Project: Articular cartilage regeneration and ear-wound healing in genetic mouse models
Philip Roper, PhD (9/2019 – 8/2020)
Mentor: Deborah Veis, MD, PhD
Project: Determining factors that underlie osteomyelitis-related bone changes
Michael Ross, PhD (9/2015 – 8/2017)
Mentor: Katherine Weilbaecher, MD
Project: Efficacy of αvβ3 integrin-targeted nanoparticles directed against breast cancer bone metastases
Eric Schmidt, PhD (7/2012 – 7/2015)
Mentors: Linda Sandell, PhD and James Cheverud, PhD
Project: Genetic architecture of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis in mice
Andrea Schwartz, PhD (7/2011 – 5/2014)
Mentor: Stavros Thomopoulos, PhD
Project: Physical and biological factors necessary for enthesis mineralization during postnatal development
Andrea Schwartz, PhD (8/2017 – 7/2018)
Mentor: Farshid Guilak, PhD
Project: The role of Piezo Ion Channels in a murine model of post-traumatic osteoarthritis
Sheree Speckman (12/2015 – 7/2016)
Mentor: Gabriel Mbalaviele, PhD
Project: The role of NLRP3 inflammasone in osteoclasts
Calvin Stephens, PhD (3/2016 – 4/2016)
Mentor: David Curiel, MD, PhD
Project: Modified adenovirus for local and systemic delivery of anti-apoptotic factors in mouse model of cartilage damage
CuiCui Wang, PhD (7/2018 – 6/2019)
Mentor: Regis O’Keefe, MD, PhD
Project: Metabolic reprogramming via lgf1 signaling in cartilage maintenance by the TGFβ pathway
Heather Zannit, PhD (7/2018 – 6/2019)
Mentor: Matthew Silva, PhD
Project: Osteoblast recruitment and bone formation in aging mice due to mechanical loading
Rong Zeng, PhD (3/2012 – 2/2016)
Mentor: Deborah Veis, MD, PhD
Project: Determining targets of RelB in the NF-κB signaling pathway in osteoclast function