research

At the UF Orthopaedic Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, we focus on developing novel technologies for the early diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of degenerative joint diseases. Much of work centers on improving the preclinical-to-clinical translation of diagnostics and therapies, including the development of new behavioral assays to examine symptomology in rodent preclinical models and new methods to collect and analyze joint-level changes using nanomagnetics. These technologies will help allow researchers to test new disease modifying therapeutics for efficacy against both disease activity and disease symptoms in models of knee osteoarthritis, temporomandibular joint (TMJ) degeneration, and degenerative joint disease.