Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) for Skeletal Health and Repair

Faculty

Current Investigators

Eui Young So, PhD
Pilot Project 1: A Novel Strategy for Modulation of Myeloid-Derived Suppressor cells to control RA (Add Link to new “Phase III Projects” page – see 4E. below)
Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University

Chathuraka Jayasuriya, PhD
Pilot Project 2: Elucidating Biological Mechanisms for Accelerating Cell-Mediated Repair of Meniscal Fibrocartilage (Add Link to new “Phase III Projects” page – see 4E. below)
Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University

Qian Chen, PhD
Administrative Supplement: Developing novel Alzheimer’s disease RNA therapeutics crossing the blood-brain barrier (Add Link to new “Phase III Projects” page – see 4E. below)
Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University

Cores

Administration

Director: Qian Chen, PhD
Associate Director: J.J. Trey Crisco, PhD
Statistician: Jason Machan, PhD

Bioengineering

Director: Braden Fleming, PhD
Co-Director: J.J. Trey Crisco, PhD

Imaging and Molecular Biology and Nanomedicine

Director:  Lei Wei, PhD
Associate Director: Qian Chen, PhD

External Advisory Committee

Martin Lotz, MD
Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine
Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, CA

Marsha Moses, PhD
Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Veronique Lefebvre, PhD
Professor, Division of Orthopedic Surgery
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Edward M. Schwarz, PhD
Burton Professor of Orthopedics
Director of Rehabilitation
University of Rochester Medical Center

Louis J. Soslowsky, PhD
Fairhill Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
Perelman School of Medicine, UPenn