Welcome to McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory

A program in orthopaedic research at the University of Pennsylvania was established in 1960, and in 1979 the McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory officially opened, establishing all of the orthopaedic research laboratories in the same physical location. Currently, the McKay Lab is a thriving, multidisciplinary facility that occupies more than 22,000 square feet of space in Stemmler Hall in the Perelman School of Medicine. Our multi-faceted research programs involve the participation of more than 120 research personnel from 17 distinct laboratories. Research expenditures in McKay total more than $15,000,000 per annum, supported largely through extramural funding including grants from the National Institutes of Health, Veteran's Administration, other governmental agencies, private foundations, and industry. We are consistently ranked in the top 5 among Orthopaedic Departments nationally in terms of NIH funding. Our overall mission is to conduct high quality fundamental and translational research and to train the next generation of leaders in our field. Moreover, the McKay Lab serves as the focal point for the NIH-supported Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders, a university-wide Center that provides resources and a forum for scientific exchange through annual symposia, a year-long seminar series, a pilot grant program and other activities. 

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McKay Laboratory News

Congratulations to Vincent
March 05, 2024
Congrats to Vincent for being selected as a finalist for the 2024 SB3C PhD Student Paper Competition!
Liu Laboratory

Congratulations to Liu Lab
March 05, 2024
Liu lab received FOCUS/Penn PROMOTES RAISE Grant for pilot study "A deep reinforcement learning-based system to guide treatment regimens for osteoporosis based on sex and sex hormone dependencies". Congratulations!
Liu Laboratory

Columbia University Invites Dr. Gullbrand to Speak
March 05, 2024
Dr. Gullbrand gave a seminar today entitled "Disc-Facet and Disc-Endplate Crosstalk During Spinal Degeneration and Repair" as part of Columbia University's Orthopaedic Surgery Seminars in Musculoskeletal Research series.
Gullbrand Laboratory

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IN THE NEWS:

Congratulations to the new Penn Medicine Achilles Tendon Research Center and the Center founding Director Dr. Lou Soslowsky.  See article at Penn Medicine News

February 7, 2023 - Penn Almanac Press Release

Congratulations to the McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory for being Ranked #1 in 2021 for NIH Funding. See article at Penn Medicine News


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