Research
We aim to improve the treatment, diagnosis and rehabilitation of arthritis via interdisciplinary research, investigating the relationships between mechanical loading, joint function, pain and inflammation.
Our research is driven by a combination of expertise and facilities drawn from across the University, external experts, industry collaborations and funding. This has allowed us to:
- build a strong base of 2000 volunteer patients
- develop a tissue repository with over 3000 samples from these volunteers to assist in our studies
- create interdisciplinary tools and methodologies
- gain ethical approval that has enabled us to create multiple protocols to be performed longitudinally on individual patients.
We have developed novel projects requiring longer term, longitudinal collection of patient data and the development of new, challenging experimental pipelines to allow the correlation of biomechanics and biology for specific patient groups.
Our projects fall under four main research programmes:
Our research depends on the continued support and enthusiasm of the people who take part in our studies. If you have healthy joints or have been treated for injury or arthritis then you can volunteer to help us with our research in a variety of ways.