Collaborative Scholarship Hosts

First Name Last Name Country Description Email
Amanda Fosang Australia Aggrecanases, collagenases, cartilage degradation amanda.fosang@mcri.edu.au
Floris Lafeber Netherlands Osteoarthritis/Cartilage f.lafeber@umcutrecht.nl
Ida Kristin Haugen Norway Hand Osteoarthritis epidemiology and imaging ida.haugen@diakonsyk.no or ida.k.haugen@gmail.com
Kathryn                Stok Australia Dr Stok heads the Integrative Cartilage Research Group quantitative microstructural imaging (micro-computed tomography) and biomechanics of cartilage and joint structures. She uses a variety of experimental and computational approaches. Her research work merges solid engineering approaches with biomedical advancement. kstok@unimelb.edu.au
Lynne Parkinson Australia Longitudinal analysis of arthritis and comorbidities in older women,
using 9 years of Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health
survey and linked databases (pharmaceutical, medical services,
hospitalisations). See www.alswh.org.au
l.parkinson@cqu.edu.au
Magali Cucchiarini Germany Gene therapy, regenerative medicine, tissue engineering for disorders of the musculoskeletal system mmcucchiarini@hotmail.com
Miguel Otero USA

Basic OA research, mouse models of OA, epigenetics, cartilage biology, chondrocyte biology, inflammation and OA

oterom@hss.edu
Peter Choong Australia 1. Clinical research including clinical trials in arthritis surgery.
Analysis of large clinical datasets/joint replacement registry
pchoong@unimelb.edu.au
Virginia Byers-Kraus      USA OA Biomarkers and pathogenesis vbk@duke.edu
Yang Xia USA icroscopic imaging of cartilage and bone using microscopic MRI
(μMRI), polarized light microscopy (PLM), Fourier-transform
infrared imaging (FT-IRI), microscopic x-ray tomography (μCT).
xia@oakland.edu
Derek Rutherford Canada Knee and Hip osteoarthritis, electromography, gait biomechanics and physiotherapy djr@dal.ca
Francisco Blanco Spain OA genomic and proteomic biomarkers
Cartilage biology
fblagar@sergas.es