Heather Ansorge

Graduate Student in Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania

HOMETOWN
Poughkeepsie, New York

EDUCATION
B.S. Agricultural and Biological Engineering, 2002, Cornell University

AREAS OF SPECIAL INTEREST
Healing of Tendon

1. Ansorge HL, Beason DP, Meng X, Birk DE, Soslowsky LJ. Functional characterization of connective tissues in a collagen XIV knockout mouse. Transactions of the 53rd Annual Orthopaedic Research Society Meeting, 32: 026, 2007.
2. Ricchetti ET, Reddy SC, Zgonis MH, Ansorge HL, Liechty KW, Beredjiklian PK, Soslowsky LJ. Interleukin-10 (IL-10) overexpression leads to improved tendon healing. Transactions of the 53rd Annual Orthopaedic Research Society Meeting, 32: 242, 2007.
3. Beason DP, Zgonis MH, Ansorge HL, Birk DE, Soslowsky LJ. Tendon healing in a mouse patellar tendon injury model effect of age. Transactions of the 53rd Annual Orthopaedic Research Society Meeting, 32: 885, 2007.
4. Reddy SC, Ricchetti ET, Zgonis MH, Ansorge HL, Liechty KW, Soslowsky LJ, Beredjiklian PK. The effect of IL-10 overexpression on the biomechanical and histological properties of healing tendon. Proceedings of American Association for Hand Surgery 2007 Annual Meeting, Rio Grande, PR, January 10-13, 2007.
5. Ricchetti ET, Zgonis MH, Ansorge HL, Reddy SC, Liechty KW, Beredjiklian PK, Soslowsky LJ. The effect of IL-10 overexpression on the biomechanical and histological properties of healing tendon. Proceedings of ASME BIO2006, Summer Bioengineering Conference, Amelia Island, FL, June 21-25, 2006.
6. Reddy SC, Ricchetti ET, Zgonis MH, Ansorge HL, Liechty KW, Soslowsky LJ, Beredjiklian PK. The effect of IL-10 overexpression on the biomechanical and histological properties of healing tendon. Proceedings of the 61st American Society for Surgery of the Hand, Washington, DC, September 7-9, 2006.
7. Ansorge HL, Chen-Kiang S, van der Meulen MCH. p21 is required to maintain long bone size and strength in vivo. Transactions of the 49th Annual Orthopaedic Research Society Meeting, 28: 419, 2003.

Heather joined the McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory in the Fall of 2004 and is currently working toward completion of her graduate studies in the Department of Bioengineering. Before coming to Penn, Heather worked for 2 years in the Immunology Department at Weill Medical College in New York City.