Events at the Indiana Center for Musculoskeletal Health

Data Meetings allow researchers to present ongoing work, receive constructive feedback, gather comments, and address roadblocks, fostering collaboration and enhancing the quality and progress of their research projects.

The Lifestyle Modification Team’s research focuses on exercise, nutritional, and behavioral modifications that impact musculoskeletal health, physical function, and mobility. The goals of this research is to better understand how musculoskeletal health and physical function affect the overall health of the population and how chronic diseases impact musculoskeletal health.

Biweekly meetings where students and postdocs present and critically evaluate recent publications, fostering discussion and improving analytical skills.

Monthly meetings where the Trauma, Regeneration, and Rehabilitation research team present updates on their research focusing on developing patient-specific interventions.

Data Meetings allow researchers to present ongoing work, receive constructive feedback, gather comments, and address roadblocks, fostering collaboration and enhancing the quality and progress of their research projects.

Dr. Pallavi Bhattaram, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics and Department of Cell Biology, Emory University will be visiting the ICMH and giving a seminar talk titled: “Fibroblast-like Synoviocytes: Their roles in Joint Inflammation, Arthritis Memory, Pain and Beyond”.

Dr. Bhattaram obtained her Ph.D., in Biochemistry from the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India, during which she developed methods for the chemical synthesis lipid modified peptides that mimic the biological activity of native proteins. She completed her postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Thomas Weimbs, University of California, Santa Barbara. She started her faculty position at the Orthopaedics Department at Emory University in 2018. Her research is directed towards understanding the molecular networks governing the pathophysiology of musculoskeletal diseases, especially osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

The cancer research team studies sarcomas, cancer-bone interactions in the metastatic niche, and the effects of cancer and its therapies on the musculoskeletal system.

Data Meetings allow researchers to present ongoing work, receive constructive feedback, gather comments, and address roadblocks, fostering collaboration and enhancing the quality and progress of their research projects.

Biweekly meetings where students and postdocs present and critically evaluate recent publications, fostering discussion and improving analytical skills.