Visiting Professorship Series
Academic Year 2013-2014
Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 1:30-2:30pm/TBA
Engineering Human Osteochondral Grafts
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Ph.D.
Mikati Foundation Professor ofBiomedical Engineering;
Professor of Medical Sciences (inMedicine)
Columbia University
Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 1:30-2:30pm/TBA
The Biomolecular Science and Engineering of Bone's Extracellular Matrix
Deepak Vashishth, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Head of Biomedical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM (all day event)
Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 10:45am-5:30pm/BRB Auditorium
Managing Science and Innovating in Challenging Times
Joan A. McGowan, Ph.D.
Director, Divison of Musculoskeletal Diseases
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculosketeal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 1:30-2:30pm/TBD
Epigenetic regulation of stem cell phenotypic plasticity and hedgehog signaling during early cartilage development
Andrew Lasser, Ph.D.
Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School
Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 1:30-2:30pm/TBD
Title: TBA
Mathias Bostrom, M.D.
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Hospital for Special Surgery
Tuesday, February 18, 2014, 1:30-2:30pm/TBD
Solid State MR Spectroscopy and Imaging of Bone Mineral and Matrix
Jerome l. Ackerman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in Radiology
Harvard Medical School
Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 1:30-2:30/TBD
Title: TBA
James C. Iatridis, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of Spine Research
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
April 2014 - TBD
May 2014 - TBD