Musculoskeletal Disease

Conditions and diseases of the muscles, bones and joints are the number one cause of disability worldwide, costing society more than $240 billion a year in lost productivity in the United States alone, and their impact is likely to worsen as the population ages.

This Center of Excellence builds on expertise at the NYU Langone School of Medicine and Hospital for Joint Diseases to focus on arthritis, autoimmunity and the repair/regeneration of musculoskeletal tissues.

Topics for collaborative studies include examining the basic biology of joint tissues and their functional decline with aging, developing methods to promote the regeneration of these tissues and applying bioengineering to design more effective implants to replace defective or injured bone and cartilage.

Co-Directors:
Steven Abramson, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Director, Division of Rheumatology
Joseph Zuckerman, M.D., Walter A.L. Thompson Professor and Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery
View list of participants here