Stem Cells and Cartilage/Bone Tissue Engineering

Stem Cells and Cartilage/Bone Tissue Engineering

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common cause of pain and disability in Australia, affecting 1.6 million Australians and a predicted 3 million by 2030. Whilst it is becoming widely recognised that tissue engineered solutions offer great promise in terms of providing effective repair of cartilage defects and ultimately prevention of the development of OA post trauma, the field has so far failed to deliver a highly efficacious product.

Our laboratory is developing novel strategies to repair cartilage defects. The advertised project AIMs to develop artificial cartilage/bone tissues. The overall AIM of this project is to assemble a mechanically robust osteochondral tissue and use it to repair cartilage defects in a sheep model in preparation for clinical translation.


This PhD Project in Dr Mike Doran’s laboratory comes with a full scholarship and is open to international candidates.


INSTITUTE
Dr Mike Doran’s laboratory is located in the new Translational Research Institute (TRI) on the Princess Alexandria Hospital (Brisbane Australia). The Institute is a joint venture between two major universities and three medical institutes. This is a worldclass institute with unparalleled resources (http://www.tri.edu.au).


LOCATION
Brisbane Australia. Beautiful Brisbane Australia is a booming international city in a subtropical climate. Brisbane is known for its people, its entertainment, and beaches.


LAB DETAILS
http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/doranm/
http://www.australianprostatecentre.org/about-us/our-people/michael-doran


CONTACT
Please submit a CV, a cover letter outlining your research interests and the names of three references to Dr Mike Doran at [Email Address Removed].