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Area of general research interest:
- Tendon Tissue Engineering and Mechanobiology
Current program:
- Scaffold devices for tendon tissue engineering
- Chronic rotator cuff tendon injury and repair in canine model
- Factors that influence the healing of human rotator cuff repairs
- Tendon explant bioreactor model to study the biologic basis for teh link between the application of mechanical forces and the cellular and metabolic response of tendon cells
Personnel:
Kathleen A. Derwin, Ph.D.1 Principal Investigator Amit Aurora, M.S.1 Graduate Student Andrew Baker, M.S.E.1 Senior Research Engineer LiKang Chin, M.S.1 Graduate Student Anny Hsu, M.S. 2 Medical Student Diane Leigh, M.S.1 Lead Research Technologist Ryan Milks, B.S.E.1 Research Engineer Jesse McCarron, MD 3 Fellow
Collaborators:
- Joseph Iannotti, M.D., Ph.D.3
- Michael Bey, Ph.D.4
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland Clinic
- Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Bone and Joint Center, Henry Ford Hospital. Detroit, MI