Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 70-75, June 2010

Fifty Years of Cartilage Research in Pittsburgh—A Department's Contribution to Cartilage Tissue Engineering

  • Verena M. Schreiber, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
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  • Carola F. van Eck, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
    • Orthopaedic Research Centre Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Wei Shen, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
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  • Freddie H. Fu, MD, DSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Freddie H. Fu, MD, DSc, Kaufman Building Suite 1011, 3471 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Historically, departments of Orthopaedic Surgery have led new and innovative research in many different fields. Cartilage research is one of those that the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh has pioneered since the foundation of the Ferguson Laboratory more than 50 years ago with many marvelous scientists and clinicians having conducted extraordinary research that still affect today's cartilage research. Nowadays, the department has 14 orthopaedic laboratories of different disciplines with over 150 people and 30 faculty members that continue to contribute to our understanding of cartilage injury and degenerative disease.

Keywords: biology, biomechanics, cartilage, tissue engineering

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 The authors did not receive any outside funding or grants in support of their research for or preparation of this work. They did not receive payments or other benefits from a commercial entity. No commercial entity paid or directed any benefits to any research or clinical organization with which the authors are affiliated or associated. The aforementioned also applies to the authors' immediate families.

PII: S1048-6666(09)00165-7

doi:10.1053/j.oto.2009.10.012

Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 70-75, June 2010

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